Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 180: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the statutory instruments governing the circumstances whereby an amenity or other development is proposed by a developer as part of the overall development of a site and granted permission by the local authority, as opposed to conditioned to that permission, but then not proceeded with by that developer; the sanctions open to the local authority in such an instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26147/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Any person who undertakes development on foot of a planning permission must complete the entire development. There are extensive enforcement powers available to a planning authority under Part VIII of the Planning and Development Act 2000 to require the works to be executed in conformity with the planning permission granted. In addition to requiring the provision of a wide range of facilities and services as a part of a permission, a planning authority may also enter into an agreement, as provided for in section 47 and Part XIV of the Planning and Development Act 2000, with a developer for the appropriate development of land. This agreement may then be enforced, as a civil matter, through the courts.