Michael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour)
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Question 235: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of bonds that have been called in by all local authorities relating to unfinished estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12379/11]

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Sections 34(4)(g) and 180(2)(b) of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, enable planning authorities to attach conditions to grants of planning permission for development requiring the provision of financial securities sufficient to safeguard the satisfactory completion of essential infrastructure and amenities in those developments, and, if a development is not subsequently completed satisfactorily, to apply a security given under section 34 for the satisfactory completion of that development It is a matter for the planning authority to determine both the level of the security and the type of security that will be required for each residential development. The amount of the security, its duration and the terms on which it is required to be given, should enable the planning authority, without cost to itself, to complete the necessary services to a satisfactory standard in the event of default by the developer. My Department does not keep statistics on the number of bonds called in by local authorities in this regard.