Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 560: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is policy for local authorities to deny public leases to community organisations that are seeking them even where the EU is offering funding to the community organisation and that funding is conditional on a public lease. [40034/06]

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 561: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the case of a group (details supplied) who have secured a commitment of €1.6 million in funding from Pobal for a community childcare project conditional on the group obtaining a public lease from Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council which the council are currently refusing to provide; if he will intervene to ensure that the group can avail of the funding offered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40035/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 560 and 561 together.

Under the provisions of section 211 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, a decision to dispose of local authority land, including the granting of a lease, is a matter for the relevant local authority and my Department has no power under that Act to direct an authority to exercise such power in individual cases.