Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 553: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason a local authority would grant full planning permission for a single-unit, single-storey dwelling and then in the schedule of conditions state the proposed house type shall be redesigned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6774/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The interpretation and implementation of planning law is a matter for the relevant planning authority or An Bord Pleanála in the case of an appeal. Section 34(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 provides that planning authorities may attach conditions to a grant of planning permission. The applicant may also make an appeal to An Bord Pleanála against a condition or conditions attached to the decision of a planning authority to make a grant of permission.

Under section 30 of the 2000 Act, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, is generally precluded from exercising influence or control in relation to any individual case.