Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 202: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will amend the planning and development regulations to give an applicant a right to make a submission by way of reply to a submission or observation which is received at or towards the end of the statutory period for submissions or observations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41185/09]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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It is my Department's view that the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, currently allow an applicant to make a further submission or comment in relation to his/her planning application. My Department's Development Management Guidelines for Planning Authorities (June 2007), note, however, that if any such further information received departs substantially from the application as originally lodged, it would require re-publication by the applicant. The interpretation of the Regulations would of course ultimately be a matter for the courts in any case that came before them.