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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) Colm Burke: Are there many of those cases?
- 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) Colm Burke: Okay. I will move to the 2016 organisational review of An Bord Pleanála. There were 101 recommendations in that report in 2016.
- 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) Colm Burke: I understand that 36 of those have been acted upon or implemented. What is the position with the other recommendations? That report is from over six years ago.
- 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) Colm Burke: The 21 that are only partially implemented are not subject to legislative change.
- 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) Colm Burke: Why is it that six years late, 21 are only partially done? There are 36 implemented and 21 partially implemented.
- 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) Colm Burke: Regarding the 31 which Mr. Walsh says require legislative change, has there been engagement with the Department about that change? On the one hand there is a report recommending changes, and on the other, the board is saying legislative change is required. Why do we not have that change six years later?
- 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) Colm Burke: Can I move on to the strategic housing developments?
- 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) Colm Burke: My understanding is that there were 126 applications in 2019. How many of those applications were dealt with and how many of them ended up in the courts or ended up not proceeding?
- 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) Colm Burke: In 2019 there were 126 SHD applications decided by the board. How many of those were subsequently overturned?
- 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) Colm Burke: Obviously these are major housing developments with a large number of houses being built.
- 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) Colm Burke: My reading is that 98 of those applications were successful but then there were judicial reviews in respect of a number of 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) Colm Burke: With regard to the planning process, we now have a problem in that regard in the sense that there is the local authority, which is on the front line, the Planning Regulator and now Irish Water is technically in the planning loop. If a local authority wants to carry out any development, it is tied by Irish Water as regards whether Irish Water can provide a service. Does Mr. Walsh not think...
- 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) Colm Burke: Absolutely but it is one of the principal ones. I know of one case where more than 50 houses have been built but cannot be sold for the next two to three years because Irish Water cannot provide a service, even though that was not initially indicated.
- 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) Colm Burke: Do we need further engagement as to how we co-ordinate and expedite the whole process while at the same time giving adequate space for people to raise genuine concerns?
- 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) Colm Burke: Mr. Walsh mentioned co-ordinated efforts. I have come across a situation in which a State authority objected to a school being built by the Department of Education. It had to go all the way to An Bord Pleanála. Even though undertakings were given to that State authority, it still insisted on a decision from An Bord Pleanála.
- 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) Colm Burke: This is taxpayers' money, however. This objection added €2 million to the Department of Education's bill.
- 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) Colm Burke: Does Mr. Walsh not accept that this is taxpayers' money and that there should be a better mechanism for dealing with something like that? In this case, there was engagement. This cost no one working in that State authority anything but it cost the taxpayer money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Colm Burke: I would like to raise an issue. It goes back to the fact that, unfortunately, the committee ran foul of the work it was doing. It is with regard to the amount of money being paid out by the HSE to the various section 38 and 39 organisations. New procedures were put in place in this regard. Since the issue arose a number of years ago have we gone back and looked over these organisations?...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Colm Burke: It is a massive amount of money. It is difficult because there are 2,500 organisations receiving funding. In fairness, the Committee of Public Accounts identified an issue previously. Perhaps it did not come out of the courts on the right side but at the same time this does not mean it is an issue we should park.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Colm Burke: Yes.