Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is a good letter and Deputy Murphy's point is quite right. The information referred to is not being gathered by An Bord Pleanála, so we might write back and ask it to put a procedure in place from now on to see that is done. It is important for the local and regional authorities and the Department to know this information. It would appear that somebody should be collecting this information, so we will pass this information on to the other sectoral committee when we get it. The reason I am commenting is that I have seen county development plans that have stated there should be no mobile phone masts within 200 m of a house. That stipulation was put in in the full knowledge that it was only for local consumption. Sometimes things get into local development plans that everybody knows will not stack up, but sometimes the right decisions are made in these types of situations.