Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 205: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps taken by his Department in relation to the requirement under the National Spatial Strategy that the strategic planning guidelines for the Greater Dublin Area issued in 1999 be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26669/07]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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In accordance with sections 21 and 22 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, the Dublin Regional Authority and the Mid-East Regional Authority, in May 2004, jointly made Regional Planning Guidelines for the whole of the area of their two regions, i.e. the area known as the Greater Dublin Area. These guidelines replaced the non-statutory Strategic Planning Guidelines for the Greater Dublin Area (1999) and incorporated the aims and policies of the National Spatial Strategy.

Section 26 of the Act requires that the regional authorities review their Regional Planning Guidelines not later than six years after the making of the Guidelines i.e. in the case of the GDA, not later than May 2010.