Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 586: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if planning permission is required to locate a new slipway in County Mayo (details supplied); and if public consultation is required for this proposal. [13252/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Development by or on behalf of a local authority which requires environmental impact assessment must be submitted to An Bord Pleanála for approval.

Where a local authority proposes to carry out development which is of a specified type or is above €126,000 in value and which does not require environmental impact assessment, the manager of the planning authority must consult the public and prescribed authorities. The manager must submit to the elected members of the local authority a report on the proposed development which describes the nature and extent of the development, evaluates whether it would be consistent with the proper planning and sustainable development of the area and summarises the issues raised in any submissions or observations made on the proposed development. The development may proceed unless the elected members vary or modify it or decide not to proceed with it.

As Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, I am generally precluded from exercising any power or control in relation to any individual matter with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála is or may be concerned. It would not, therefore, be appropriate to comment on an individual case.