Dodgy Damien English, as Junior Minister (2017-21), and Dave Walsh, now ‘retired’ former head of the planning department, were among the range of officials and Ministers in the Housing Department who served to keep Gerard Convie’s allegations about corruption in Donegal planning out of the public domain.
And O’Brien is benefiting from favourable coverage in the paper for his precipitate U-turning Planning Bill which embraces Bord Pleanála, social housing, judicial review and the foreshore The Minister of Housing, Darragh O’Brien has been scrambling of late to hustle through the passage of the still fast-evolving unfinished but critical Planning and Development […]
By J Vivian Cooke. The Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 is currently — precipitously — accelerating through the Houses of the Oireachtas. In part, it will facilitate the appointment of Oonagh Buckley as interim head of An Bord Pleanála (ABP). Village has expressed grave and detailed concerns about this process. […]