Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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356. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 478 of 30 April 2014, the basis of the appointment of MacCabe Durney Barnes consultants; and if there was an invitation to public tender for this contract. [26665/14]

Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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362. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the results of the report he has commissioned will be published. [26672/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 356 and 362 together.

I appointed MacCabe Durney Barnes Consultants in February 2014 to carry out an independent planning review on the performance of planning functions in six selected planning authorities (Carlow, Cork, Galway and Meath County Councils and Cork and Dublin City Councils) in accordance with section 255 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 following an open public tendering process and subsequent tender evaluation assessment conducted by my Department on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender. I expect to receive the final report from the consultants in July 2014 and I intend to publish it having considered its contents.