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
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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Clearly not because it is a very slow process, according to Mr. Hogan. We are not able to recruit the number of staff required and this woman in Wexford has waited 13 months for a decision that should take 18 weeks. I cannot see how this woman could not sue the Department for dereliction of its duties for the cost she will incur to drive up the price of her house build in the period she has waited beyond 18 weeks. Does Mr. Doyle see there is a future prospect of people suing the Department and the planning authority because of delayed decisions? Is that beyond possibility? Maybe the Comptroller and Auditor General has an opinion.