Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 321: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will advise the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform that a proposed development project (details supplied) in County Cork will destroy the historical and heritage nature of an area. [20242/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Under planning legislation, special provisions apply to development consisting of prisons or other places of detention. Article 87 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 requires the State authority to publish notice of any such proposed development. Article 88 requires inter alia that where proposed development would involve the carrying out of works which would materially affect the character of a protected structure, a proposed protected structure, notice of such development shall be sent to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. A State authority must furthermore, in deciding whether a proposed development is to be carried out, have regard to any submissions or observations made by a planning authority or by any other person or body in accordance with Part 9 of the 2001 Regulations. An Article 87 notice has not yet been published in relation to any proposed development at Spike Island, County Cork.

Three monuments, two associated with the military fortification and garrison and one related to the early monastic site, of which no visible overground remains survive, are currently listed for Spike Island, County Cork in the statutory Record of Monuments and Places established under section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994. Section 12 also requires that any person proposing to carry out, or to cause or to permit the carrying out of any work at or in relation to such monuments, shall give notice in writing to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government of the proposal and shall not, except in the case of urgent necessity and with ministerial consent, commence the work for a period of two months after having given the notice.