Written answers

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Planning Issues

Photo of Seán Ó FearghaílSeán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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45. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the time frame for the introduction of a planning regulator; the nature of the regulator’s role and relationship with current planning bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20456/13]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The Government published its response to the recommendations of the Final Report of the Mahon Tribunal on 19 July 2012 including in respect of an independent planning regulator, to which it has agreed in principle. I also discussed this specific recommendation with the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht on 29 January 2013. Following further appropriate, Government consideration of this recommendation, and taking into account the views expressed by the members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee, it is my intention shortly to announce details of the intended role and functions of a proposed new Office of the Planning Regulator.

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