Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 July 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
9:30 am
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
You did. In one instance, there was a situation, as the Chairman correctly outlined, where inspectors' reports were increasingly being disallowed or overturned by a board in respect of a particular type of development at a huge scale. This was unprecedented, as far as I can make, out in terms of the board previously having made decisions. Mr. Walsh had a couple of reasons. He was making the assertion to the Committee of Public Accounts very strongly. All of a sudden, his inspectors' reports were being rejected on a massive scale. There were communities the length and breadth of the country stating that the decisions were unfair and were not based on proper, adequate rationale. There was all of the rationale to carry out even a paper assessment as to whether what he was asserting to the Committee of Public Accounts was true and Mr. Walsh did not do that. Is that not correct?
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