Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 366: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 474 of 18 November 2008 relating to development consent in respect of strategic infrastructure projects, if he will confirm the stipulated fee in such instances; the details of each proposed project inclusive of applicant name, brief description of the works involved and the decision of the board on determined cases with respect to all such applicants received to date by An Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43541/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Under the Planning Acts, as Minister, I may only intervene in the planning process in respect of heritage matters, i.e., I may comment on planning applications or appeals, or give expert advice to planning authorities or An Bord Pleanála, in relation to the protection of the built and natural heritage only. In all other circumstances, I am precluded, under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000, from exercising any power or control in relation to any individual planning application or appeal with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála is or may be concerned.

The prescribed fee for making an application for development consent under the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006 is €100,000. The processing of individual cases under the Act is a matter for An Bord Pleanála, and one in which I have no function. Details of all applications and decisions made under the Strategic Infrastructure Act are available on the website of An Bord Pleanála at www.pleanala.ie.