Ms Oonagh Buckley:

I am a good old-fashioned civil servant and tend not to own shares. Without commenting specifically on that provision, we are having a look at the code of conduct more generally and we will publish a revised code of conduct. I hope to take it to the board in February. We will then have to engage with staff and obviously the Minister and the OPR on it. Essentially, it is incumbent upon members of the board and staff to be really highly vigilant as to their responsibilities under declarations. Those would be the minimum standards but perhaps everybody needs to be hyper vigilant when working in An Bord Pleanála as to whether there could be any possible charge of objective bias or conflict of interest. That is something we would need to move towards and that needs to be a firm culture within the organisation.