Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I am envisaging a case where it is beyond the statutory period for enforcement action and somebody seeks to carry out an exempted development. If it has been there for, say, ten years and the neighbour can no longer take an enforcement action against it, because it is statute barred, and if somebody seeks to carry out works to that structure, can they claim an exempted development benefit in that scenario, even though they will be carrying out works on an unauthorised structure?