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- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I want to follow through on this because this is a point about which I am aware. This is where my determination to ensure An Bord Pleanála is changed for the better is exemplified. I do not think An Bord Pleanála can or should in any way, shape or form take an application unless it is verified. The stage after involves taking the decision to another level, which is the courts....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: That is not foolproof.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Yet it happens.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: As I have many other issues to get to, I will highlight a case but absolve the witnesses from commenting on it. It is not in Tipperary, so it has nothing to do with my constituency. Last March, a planning application for a hotel in a little village, Ballinskelligs – I know the place well because it is where my wife’s family comes from – was turned down. It was an insane...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: It came from somewhere but the person does not exist.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Put it this way, nobody in Kerry knows who it is.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: First, I disagree with the decision. That is fine. However, take the circle of the decision-making process. It is corrupted if a person is appealing it and then the board has to consider that as part of the mix. It cannot say that it is the same complete decision if it got all the way through the board but the person objecting does not exist. One wonders why people have concerns about...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I understand it is there but it needs to be put into an easier format so people can see it. All conversations, telephone calls, etc., between members of the board should have to be revealed prior to a decision being made. However many people are involved in making a decision, if any of the decision makers had conversations with each other before the decision was made, they should, through...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: It is called The Organisational Review of An Bord Pleanála by an independent review group, February 2016, commissioned by me. There are very good recommendations in it and I want to find out the status of them all. I have a deep suspicion that many of them have not materialised. That would concern me because I felt at the time that there was not much of a pull towards my decision to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Does it happen every single time?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I would like to see it done in the way outlined in the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: That is for transparency and ease of use. I am not going to take up much committee time on this but there are a number of other useful recommendations. Recommendation No. 3 relates to managerial oversight. Recommendation Nos. 6 and 8 deal with board members being appointed by the public appointments service, PAS. That goes outside the board's remit and is more of a departmental issue but...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I understand that, and will ask the Department to deal with those recommendations.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Can Mr. Walsh come back to the committee on the recommendations that relate to the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I did.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I understand. We will find out about it exactly when the board sends a report on the 101 recommendations to the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: There are 101 recommendations in the report in question. I ask Mr. Walsh to remove the ones that are Department-led and give us a status update on the rest.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: What is Mr. Walsh's view? I am asking if he has an issue with any of the proposed legislation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: It has now been nearly three and a half years since the report was published, and I am deeply concerned that the recommendations have not been implemented.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: That is good, because the Department refused to answer my parliamentary question on it.