Joe Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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Question 100: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of A Platform for Change; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that several major planning applications continue to be made on the basis of its full introduction by 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29078/05]

Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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A Platform for Change continues to provide a broad strategic framework for transportation planning in the greater Dublin area and has been taken into account, along with other strategic studies, in my Department's preparatory work on a ten year transport investment framework. The consideration of planning applications and appeals are matters respectively for local authorities and An Bord Pleanála and they must do so in accordance with the relevant statutory provisions of the Planning and Development Act 2000. The Dublin Transportation Office is a prescribed body under that Act and it regularly avails of that power to comment on individual planning applications, thereby ensuring that strategic transportation planning issues are taken into account in planning decisions.