Derek Keating (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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304. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government following the granting of planning permission by An Bord Pleanála against the wishes of the Bord Pleanála Planning Official for the development of a dump in the Rathcoole area, County Dublin; the steps and safeguards his Department will make to ensure that the environmental impact of this decision and the conditions that have been assigned to the planning grant are strictly monitored and adhered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28642/13]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The Planning and Development Acts 2000 - 2012 provide that the decision making authority for An Bord Pleanála rests with the Board itself and not with any individual inspector who may report on a case. The Board, in almost all cases which come before it, commissions an inspector's report on the case and it has the benefit of this assessment as an aid to its overall consideration of the matter. Inspectors' reports and the Board's decisions are available to the public within three working days of each decision. This provides the necessary transparency to the process and enables the rationale for the Board's decision to be fully understood by all participants in the planning process.

Responsibility for enforcement of conditions attached to a planning permission lies with the relevant planning authority. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and local authorities are responsible for waste licensing and waste permitting, respectively, and enforce rigorously the conditions attached to licences and permits.