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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We are under time pressure as there is a delegation from Canada coming later. If the Senator is not going to comment on certain issues, please move on to the next question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: The Senator has indicated she does not want to comment on the issue so please move to the next subject.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I call Deputy Kitt and ask him to focus on questions, as another group is due to appear before the committee later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Is it more of a bottleneck than a backlog?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We will park the issue of whether it is a backlog or bottleneck. When we meet with Dr. Kelly next year, we hope to see the board moving well past the 90% figure if it is operating at an optimum level. If the board has its full complement of staff and is meeting regularly, we should be seeing a significant improvement upon 81%; the percentage should be around the mid-90s.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I have one question for Dr. Kelly before I bring in Senator Landy. Based on the current variables with regard to appeals coming in and the number of staff, Dr. Kelly is telling us that the difficulty in freeing up that bottleneck lies in the staffing of the board, that there is a bottleneck as opposed to a backlog and that if the board has its optimum number of meetings over the next 12...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We will be naming it. I am just waiting for it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I will deal with that issue towards the end of the meeting. I am trying to deal with the macro issues now and we will deal with the local issues later on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: The question is whether they have a statutory function.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I need to push the Deputy towards asking questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I need questions, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We are trying for questions rather than Second Stage debates.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Before I invite Senator Landy to speak, I will stay on the point about the 18-week period for decisions. Later, I will talk about judicial reviews. The board is supposed to make decisions within a statutory objective period of 18 weeks. In the 2004-05 period, just prior to the peak of the property bubble, the board's success rate in this regard was 85%. While the bubble was collapsing,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: If Mr. Egan could forward them, we would be grateful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We are in public session and are joined by Dr. Mary Kelly, chairman of An Bord Pleanála, Mr. Conall Boland, deputy chairman, Mr. Des Johnson, director of planning, and Mr. Gerard Egan, director of corporate affairs, to discuss An Bord Pleanála's decision-making processes and how its decisions are arrived at. I thank the witnesses for their attendance. In commencing proceedings I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We have a quorum. I propose that we go into private session to deal with Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, on the agenda. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Postal Voting (4 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current regulations regarding postal voting; if there are any plans in place to bring more flexibility to obtaining a postal vote to facilitate those abroad on holiday, on temporary work assignments or on study placement; is it intended to permit citizens to vote in Irish embassies and consulates abroad; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: House Purchase Schemes (4 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made regarding the incremental purchase scheme; the number of purchases to date that have taken place under the scheme; the number of local authorities that have the scheme in place; if he has given consideration to extending the traditional tenant purchase model which is due to cease this year; and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering Numbers (4 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses and ponies slaughtered in each of the last two years; the number slaughtered privately; the number exported live; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42381/12]

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: That is easy.