Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 204: To ask the Minister for Transport further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 12 October 2004 in which he stated that his Department does not appeal planning applications in the vicinity of airport runways, the reason his Department objected on 20 December 1988 to a planning application (details supplied); if his Department ever objected to any other similar planning application at Dublin, Cork or Shannon airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12155/07]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act 1998 assigned certain functions to Aer Rianta (now the Dublin Airport Authority) that were formerly the responsibility of the Minister for Transport. These included planning submissions. I am informed by the Dublin Airport Authority that the application referred to in PQ 24360/04 was made in 2003 and accordingly planning submissions were made by Aer Rianta.

In 1988, prior to the 1998 Act, submissions regarding developments in red (safety) areas at Dublin, Cork or Shannon airports were made by the then Department of Transport. For the application which the Deputy refers to, P8/25817, objection was made to the proposal due to its location within the red (safety) area of the approach to Runway 13 at Shannon Airport.