Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 April 2023

Public Accounts Committee

An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021

9:30 am

Ms Oonagh Buckley:

Probably not. As I said in my opening statement, the board has a large accrued liability and has to keep cash on hand to meet that liability. The board pursues people and asks them to present their bills because it needs to pay them and it has a liability that it would like to meet. Interestingly, it can sometimes be slow to get legal firms to present their bills. It is something I experienced in the Legal Aid Board context as well in my previous role, in that there can be a large accrued liability, with bills not being presented.