Peter Mullan would rather have remained a faceless civil servant until the end of his career. And, at 61, he most likely would have managed it. But when he became CEO of An Coimisiún Pleanála (ACP) this summer, Mullan realised something had to give if he were to have any hope of reversing the dismal public image of the State’s national planning body. Crisis engulfed the body in 2022 when the deputy chair, Paul Hyde, was accused – and later sentenced to two months in jail – for failing to declare his interests in a number of properties, contrary to…

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