Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 625: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if all sections of the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006 have been commenced; if not, the sections which have not; the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5364/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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All sections of the Act have now been commenced. There were three commencement orders in total: S.I. 525 of 2006 commenced Sections 1, 2, 6(a), 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 21, 24, 26, 28, 31, 43, 44, 45, 46 and 48, relating to the 'normal' planning process, on 17 October 2006; S.I. 553 of 2006 commenced Sections 14, 15 and 16, relating to An Bord Pleanála, on 5 November 2006; and S.I. 684 of 2006 commenced the remaining sections, 3, 4, 5, 6(b), (c) and (d), 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 47, 49, 50 and 51, which deal with strategic infrastructure consents, on the 31 January 2007.

Copies of these commencement orders with accompanying guides to the sections commenced in each instance are available on my Department's website at www.environ.ie.