Legal
Former deputy chair of An Bord Pleanála pleads guilty to failing to declare property interests
Paul Hyde’s barrister asked judge to consider not recording a conviction but was told this ‘would be optimistic’
Paul Hyde, the former deputy chair of An Bórd Pleanála, has pleaded guilty to failing to declare his interest in a number of properties while serving as an officer of the state’s planning appeals agency.
Hyde, of Castlefields, Baltimore, in West Cork, appeared at Skibbereen District Court having been summonsed on nine breaches of Section 147 of the Planning and Development Act.
The act required Hyde, as an officer of the board, to declare all ...
