Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 635: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he received the statutory two-month notice required from the developer concerned prior to the commencement of rock breaking and major excavation at Trim Castle. [30472/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is not aware of a rock breaking or major excavation at Trim Castle. A planning application relating to the hotel development near Trim Castle was forwarded to my Department on 7 March 2003. It has been the practice in my Department to accept planning application referrals as the statutory notification required by section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994.

Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 636: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if Trim Urban District Council sought his consent prior to its disposal to a developer of a site adjacent to Trim Castle for a hotel. [30473/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The site in question was disposed of in May 2002 in accordance with section 211(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000. The question of ministerial consent under section 211(2) of the Act did not arise.