Written answers

Tuesday, 17 June 2008

Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government

Planning Issues

11:00 pm

Photo of Noel CoonanNoel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael)
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Question 926: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary has been prevented by his Department from earning an income from harvesting a turf site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23222/08]

Photo of Noel CoonanNoel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael)
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Question 927: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps necessary to be taken by a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary to enable them to continue turf cutting at a site which has been ongoing since the 1940s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23223/08]

Photo of Noel CoonanNoel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael)
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Question 928: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he envisions a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be able to harvest turf again on a site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23224/08]

Photo of John GormleyJohn Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 926 to 928, inclusive, together.

I understand that the person concerned has been informed on a number of occasions that the scale of the turf-cutting activities in this area is such that it requires either planning permission or an integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) licence from the Environment Protection Agency (EPA).

In operating without the required consents, the person may be in breach of the Wildlife Act 2000 as well as the Planning and Development Act, 2000. I understand that the Office of Environmental Enforcement (OEE) in the EPA has advised this person that enforcement proceedings may be taken in this matter.

I also understand that the local authority has served an enforcement notice pursuant to Section 154 of the Planning and Development Act.

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