Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 May 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála

9:30 am

Mr. Dave Walsh:

I probably should have mentioned that there are only two areas where the board is able to get full cost recovery in respect of applications. One is strategic infrastructure, where the upfront fees are paid but the board calculates its own processing and decision costs and it either seeks further funds or, in many cases, it recoups some of the initial fee back to the applicant. It is a similar arrangement with regard to SHD. At this stage, given that there is a firm commitment in the programme for Government that the SHD process is due to lapse or expire in early 2022, it is unlikely that we would be reviewing or proposing any amendments to the SHD fees process between now and when that system goes away.