Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 April 2023

Public Accounts Committee

An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021

9:30 am

Ms Oonagh Buckley:

To go back, we are going to start to get the additional board members - the people who have arrived in the last couple of weeks - working on householder cases and normal planning appeals. These tend to be smaller cases, and they are less complex in planning terms. That is what we did with the people who arrived in January. We will build up their expertise quite rapidly in that space. That means we are using that additional resource effectively to try and get our standard operating procedure, SOP compliance up as quickly as possible. That is what we are going to be doing in that space.