Process for An Bord Pleanála appointments 'must change', says Taoiseach

Taoiseach Micheál Martin at Croke Park on Sunday for the GAA All-Ireland Senior Football final between Kerry and Galway. Picture: Ryan Byrne/Inpho

The process for appointing members of An Bord Pleanála must change, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said, as he admitted that the probes into the planning watchdog “worry” him.

Planning in Ireland was thrown into the spotlight when An Bord Pleanála’s deputy chairman Paul Hyde stepped back from his duties on May 9, on a “strictly without prejudice” basis after an independent investigation into his decision-making was established under the stewardship of senior counsel Remy Farrell.