Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities.
9:30 am
Mr. Graham Doyle:
We recognise planning as part of the issue around the overall housing qiestion, as the Deputy has said we have got the planning Bill, etc. Specifically on resourcing, we worked with our colleagues in the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform from where An Bord Pleanála was, so just under 200 people to over 300 people, which is a 50% increase.