Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 262: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the regulations in place which can be invoked by residents who are living beside blocks of student apartments, which are privately owned by an investor and where the student residents create loud noise especially late at night and at weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11295/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Section 107 of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 provides local authorities with powers to require measures to be taken to prevent or limit noise. These powers are generally exercised in preventing and limiting noise from commercial and industrial premises within their functional areas.

Under the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 and Noise Regulations 1994, a local authority or any person may seek an order in the District Court to have noise giving reasonable cause for annoyance abated. The procedures involved have been simplified to allow action to be taken without legal representation. A public information leaflet outlining the legal avenues available to persons experiencing noise nuisance is available from my Department and on the Department's website, www.environ.ie.

Provisions in the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 concerning anti-social behaviour, in the context of tenant and landlord obligations, may also be relevant, depending on the circumstances.