Former DPP solicitor to replace Oonagh Buckley as chair of troubled planning authority

Peter Mullan, the former chief solicitor at the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), is to replace Oonagh Buckley as interim chair of An Bord Pleanála from September.

Mullan joined the planning authority in January having previously served as assistant secretary at the Department of Justice and Equality.

Prior to his role at the department, Mullan was assistant secretary at the Courts Service between 2015 and 2018, and served as chief prosecutions solicitor at the DPP ...