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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: A question was asked about when the penny dropped that taxpayers' money was being blown-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: -----left, right and centre to the tune of approximately €8.4 million. I want to move on. Last year, Mr. Walsh told the committee: Either I, as chairperson, or the chair of a given meeting can escalate any case considered to require a larger board. Where someone says that a given matter should go before a larger board, that can be facilitated. How many times did that happen...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: I want to move on because time is of the essence. Mr. Walsh might furnish us with the exact figure.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: If a case comes before an inspector or a member of the board and it relates to that person's neighbourhood, what decision-making guidelines are in place?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: Which is what?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: What is it in kilometres?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: There are no guidelines as such. In England, it is 5 km. An Bord Pleanála leaves it up to board members to declare that they have------

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: Is that not quite loose?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: Does it not leave matters open-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Walsh is confident that it is being adhered to stringently.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Walsh is confident. I wish to ask about the procedures that An Bord Pleanála has in place. It was stated that case assignment was random. Is it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: They are randomly assigned.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: If an individual member of a telecommunications board, for example, made the decision in 75 out of 100 cases, would Mr. Walsh consider that unusual? No one in this room would view that as random. Would Mr. Walsh oversee the situation? Were something like that to happen, why would it not be picked up on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: That is fair enough.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: I wish to ask about a board member failing to restate a disclosure. The change is verified by the board. I am curious. If an Oireachtas Member declared three houses one year but only one the next, we would rightly expect it to be investigated. Where is the board's oversight? There are nine board members and they submit disclosures every year. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: It is purely the nine board members.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: There would not be a wad of documentation that would take months to go through. Does Mr. Walsh have oversight of that as chair? Would he look back over eight or ten years to see whether anything had changed that might ring alarm bells, for example, omissions? Has he encountered omissions and did he look into them?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: Not that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Imelda Munster: I have a final question.