Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 1807: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the recourse available to a community when an enforcement notice issued under the planning and development regulations is not complied with and legal proceedings are not forthcoming from the local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1011/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Complaints about planning enforcement should be made in writing to the planning authority in the first instance. Any person who is not satisfied with the service he or she has received from a planning authority may complain to the Director of Planning Services in that authority or to the Office of the Ombudsman.

In addition, section 160 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 empowers the High Court, on the application of a planning authority or any other person, by order to require a person to do anything the Court considers necessary to ensure that an unauthorised development is not carried out or continued. Section 161 enables the Court to make the person convicted under the Act to pay to the planning authority or any other person the costs and expenses of the action, measured by the Court.