Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the decisions made by An Bord Pleanála countrywide in each of the years 2012 to 2016 that were contrary to the inspector's report. [41991/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Since the establishment of An Bord Pleanála in 1977, planning legislation has clearly assigned final responsibility for decisions on planning appeals to the Board and not to inspectors preparing reports and making recommendations to the Board.

The number of Inspectors’ recommendations not generally accepted in the final decisions made by the Board in the period referred to is as follows, along with the percentage of these cases as a percentage of the overall number of cases decided by the Board in that year:

2012 - 284 (19.9%),

2013 - 339 (17.7%),

2014 - 229 (15.4%),

2015 - 204 (12.7%), and

2016 - 244 (14.8%).

This information, and other related statistics, are publically available in An Bord Pleanála's Annual Reports which can be accessed on the following link: .