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- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: I will allow the witness to respond briefly. We are running out of time.
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: Very briefly. I want other members to get back in.
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: If the Deputy wants to take time, I can take someone else and she can come back in.
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: Can someone clarify something on that point. I am still not clear on this. Will those bodies that had the right to nominate onto An Bord Pleanála in the past, have the same right when we get beyond this interim period?
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: They will not have it as a right under the legislation.
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: Architects and environmentalists, and so on.
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: Before bringing the next member in, will the representatives come back with the number of oral hearings in 2022 and previous years?
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Does Ms Buckley have figures for 2020, 2021 and 2022?
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: We take another Member, if Ms Hill wants to search for those figures. I call Deputy Colm Burke.
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: In relation to the Planning and Development Act, regarding the pecuniary interest, what controls are in place now for oversight of section 148? I note there has been a reduction in the number of those made from 2020.
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: I recognise that this is a self-declaration but what oversight and monitoring is taking place of that by board members?
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: A number of the decisions where issues arose, particularly around a two-person board making them, were around telecommunication masts. I do not want to deal with any specific, individual one but how many of them is An Bord Pleanála facing judicial review on?
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: Typically, would it be correct that they would have been individual masts passed by a local authority and appealed to An Bord Pleanála?
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: There are three of them facing judicial review. In terms of the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: In relation to the number of inquiries and reports, there are four in total. Somebody said earlier there were three but there are actually four. These were the one commissioned by the Minister where he appointed a senior counsel in April of last year; the internal report where the chairperson commissioned a team in July; the Office of the Planning Regulator, on 24 August, commissioned a...
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: Could the interim chairperson come back to us with that figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: In terms of the reviews, particularly the issue of telecommunication masts and telecommunication decisions, was that a recurring issue or an issue that cropped up in those reviews, in terms of questionable cases or cases that might still be coming this way?
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: Is An Bord Pleanála defending those cases?
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is okay. That answers the question for me. I do not want the interim chairperson to go into it. I am trying to be careful around it.
- Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)
Brian Stanley: I have one final question for the interim chairperson. From what Ms Buckley stated earlier, she welcomes the Planning and Development Bill and thinks that will help to put a better framework in place. Does she see it as reducing overall legal costs and putting the board into a better position? It is a policy question. Is she satisfied that it is-----