Despite additional resources last year only one-quarter of decisions delivered on time
In July 2022 the board’s former deputy chairman, Paul Hyde, resigned. He was subsequently sentenced for failing to declare certain property interests in the course of his work. Photograph: The Irish Times
The Public Service Performance Report shows the number of large-scale infrastructure development cases processed, such as energy projects including wind farms had increased between 2021 and 2022, with 69 strategic infrastructure decisions issued in 2021 and 94 issued in 2022, but this rate plunged to just 29 last year.
Membership of the decision-making board of the organisation had fallen from nine to just five members at the end of 2022. At the same time staff numbers in the organisation as a whole had dropped significantly, which was a debilitating blow to its ability to process permissions. “Despite promises, staff shortages in An Bord Pleanála have not been dealt with causing increasing delays in processing applications. Development sites with the potential to deliver thousands of homes are needlessly lying idle.”
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