Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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Question 165: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the planned prison in Kilworth, County Cork; if planning permission is required before the development can go ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29087/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Government decided earlier this year to assign a site owned by the Minister of Defence to the Prison Service as the location for the development of a prison facility to replace Cork Prison and serve the Munster region. The project is at an early stage.

The normal planning provisions do not apply to a prison development. However before consent to a prison development can be given, the procedures set out in Part 9 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 and, where appropriate, section 181A of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 (as inserted by section 36 of the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act, 2006) or the procedures set out in Part 4 of the Prisons Act 2007 must be followed. These procedures require public notice to be given of the proposed development and allow submissions to be made by interested parties on the development.