Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 367: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when proposed amendments to planning regulations will be brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34634/10]

Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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The Planning and Development Regulations 2010 were signed by Minister Gormley on 30 July 2010 and came into effect from 19 August 2010. The Regulations were laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas on 24 August 2010. The 2010 Regulations updated the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 on foot of the sections 28 and 29 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010 which was enacted on 26 July 2010. Sections 28 and 29 of the 2010 Act amend sections 42 and 42A of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2009 which relate to the power to extend the appropriate period of a planning permission.

Further Regulations are being prepared on foot of the enactment of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act, 2010. It is my intention to have the required Regulations laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas as soon as possible.