Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 338: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received correspondence from local residents in relation to concerns over the ownership, operation of, and exemptions from planning permission of a tower (details supplied) in County Mayo; and when he will direct that an official from the Irish Aviation Authority meet with local residents to hear and address their concerns. [4527/09]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has no record of receiving any such correspondence.

I am advised by the Irish Aviation Authority that the Authority has a radar station on Dooncarton Mountain, Glengad, Co Mayo. This is one of a number of such radar stations around the country. It was built in the mid 1990s in accordance with planning permission granted by Mayo County Council.

I am further advised by the Authority that it understands that a planning application has recently been lodged with Mayo County Council by another party on a site adjacent to the radar station. I am advised that this site and proposed lattice tower development is not associated in any way with the Authority.