Results 4,101-4,120 of 34,872 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: In respect of all decisions made, Mr. Walsh might inform the committee as soon as is practical how many decisions were made by three or five members and how many were made by the full board. When he might have called a meeting of the full board, he might have had only eight or nine members in attendance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Walsh might give us a breakdown. How many of the two thousand and some hundred decisions-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: -----were made by the full board? I think there was a time when there were only three members on the board.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: There was a time when there were only three and they had to do everything and I understand why. Board members can deal with cases simultaneously when broken up. However, we would like to know the numbers. In due course Mr. Walsh might give us the information on the types or categories of decision but not in individual cases where he felt it was appropriate to bring a matter to the full...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: If somebody can telephone Mr. Walsh's office to have it emailed to the committee secretariat, it can be distributed. We ask that there be a facility available to obtain information during the course of every meeting. If Mr. Walsh could answer the query during the course of the meeting, it would be great.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: A judicial review.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Sheridan might tell us in due course or today, if he can, how many decisions a Minister has made under these provisions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is appreciated and understood. It does not bypass the system in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Thank you. I call Deputy Kelly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: It was a great phrase.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Does the Deputy mean it was appealed by someone with a false name? The letter must have come from somewhere.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Is it that the named person does not exist?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The witnesses are only listening.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: What is the name of that report?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Walsh to send it through the committee. He and the Deputy are both familiar with the document but the committee does not have it in front of it. In order to be fair to the full committee, he should send the report-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask him to send the response to the report through the committee in order that we know what is being referred to.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Walsh has used the word "stakeholders" a few times. Who are the stakeholders in question?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Who are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: There are far more people who have made submissions and observations as part of the planning process than there are local authority officials, builders, or architects. How many of those people were consulted? Did An Bord Pleanála go through its files and ask a sample of the site users who corresponded with it to be part of this process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Very few people come to these public meetings, relative to 3.5 million people, as we know from open meetings and local plans not being contested. I think of the term "stakeholder" as referring to officialdom and all the people with a vested interest in getting through the system.