Martin Ferris (Kerry North-West Limerick, Sinn Fein)
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153. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the average period of extension granted by local authorities on applications for an extension of planning permission based on substantial works having already been carried out. [54496/13]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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My Department collates and publishes a wide range of planning statistics that inform the preparation and evaluation of policy, and those data are available on my Department’s website. Data on the total numbers of extensions to planning permissions granted by the planning authorities on an annual basis are included in these data; however, statistics for the average period for such extensions are not collected by my Department.

John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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154. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is a criminal offence to include false information in a planning application and if not his plans to draft legislation to make it a an offence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54530/13]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Much of the information provided by a planning applicant on a planning application form and, where relevant, in response to a further information request, is checked by the planning authority in the course of its consideration of the application.

The giving of false information by a developer could lead to a permission granted being deemed invalid by the courts.

I have no current plans to amend the Planning Act or Regulations in this regard.