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- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Fine. Mr. Walsh can send us a note on the next question I want to ask. An Bord Pleanála's inspectorate does the work on all decisions, presents the report to the board members and so on. Will Mr. Walsh tell us, if he has the figure off the top of his head, which he probably does, although I ask him to send it to us anyway, how many decisions of the board accept the inspector's...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: As Chairman, I want to put to the committee the two sides to this. It depends on whether one likes the judgment or the decision. People will have a view as to whether it is right or wrong. If a person agrees with the inspector and is overruled by the board, people complain bitterly, but then I always take the view that if the inspector's decision is the final word, why is a board needed at...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Did Mr. Walsh say that as part of An Bord Pleanála's published documentation, one can see who the three or four board members were-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: If I look up the decision, I will be able to see all that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: It is a matter of transparency again.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Those three are operating as-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I have some further questions. I am looking through An Bord Pleanála's annual report. For strategic infrastructure development there is a requirement for pre-application consultation. Am I correct in saying that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: An Bord Pleanála has the figures for last year in the report. There is a concern that somebody proposing a strategic infrastructure development may sit down with An Bord Pleanála at length before the proposal comes before the board. One would wonder whether An Board Pleanála guided or assisted the applicant or told him or her what he or she had better change. The acid test...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: What is the percentage of strategic infrastructure development cases that get permission versus those in which An Bord Pleanála grants an appeal?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Walsh can send it to me.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I want to see whether there is a material difference.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: An Bord Pleanála had 39 requests, 16 of which were deemed strategic. Out of those that were deemed strategic, will Mr. Walsh give us the percentage that ended up as grants for the past number of years. He can understand my question. The same goes for the strategic housing developments. Is pre-planning consultation required for those?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Walsh means developments of more than 100 units.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Am I right, then, in saying there is no further information request process as part of this process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Walsh can understand people wondering whether An Bord Pleanála and a given applicant sat down together. I refer to what a planning authority would normally consider as part of a planning application. If the authority receives an application, it is unusual not to have some request for further information, and that can then be assessed and people can see it. In these situations,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: An Bord Pleanála needs to assuage that concern because it pervades quite a lot of the debate on strategic housing development. Perhaps those figures will add to public concern or perhaps they will not - I do not know - but we need information. That is why we-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The lads or ladies could be having coffee together, though, so that does not cut the mustard with the public.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Has the public the opportunity to object at that stage?