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

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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The courts have found that the board was finding on an illegal basis in respect of those decisions. Despite that, the board continued to find on the exact same basis and was repeatedly taken to court where it repeatedly lost, to the point where €8 million per year, one third of the budget, was spent on legal fees. Mr. Walsh did not say "Stop".