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. Graham Doyle:

We have heard anecdotally from the industry that it is part of its costings upfront. It builds in a risk factor. Figures vary of course but I have heard, in some cases, figures of €2 million on a big development, where somebody puts judicial review in as a contingency.