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

Mr. Dave Walsh:

As I said, a number of them relate to legislative review issues. There are 31 of those included. Of the 70 that remain for the board to deal with 36 have been fully completed, about 21 of them are in train and partially completed, and there are others that we may not implement at all because some of them are not, as I mentioned to others, pragmatic in the context of how the board operates and indeed what is appropriate. We have integrated many of these actions into our five-year strategy. The fact that the record shows only 36 complete does not necessarily reflect the fact of broader implementation.