Mary Wallace (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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Question 171: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the list of guidelines and regulations within his Department that deals with telecommunications masts. [26059/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Like all development which is not exempted development, planning permission must be sought for the erection of an antennae support structure or mast. Article 6 and Schedule 2, Part 2, Class 35 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 sets out certain exemptions in this area, including, subject to certain conditions, the attachment of additional antennae to an existing antenna support structure, the erection of an antenna support structure in place of an existing antenna support structure and the attachment of antennae to certain existing structures, such as telegraph poles, electricity pylons and certain public or commercial buildings.

Guidelines to planning authorities on telecommunications antennae and support structures were published in July 1996. They are available on my Department's website at www.environ.ie or in the Oireachtas Library.