Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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134. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the current investigation into planning which was set up following the publication of the review in June 2013. [27609/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I refer to the reply to Questions Nos. 356 and 362 of 24 June 2014.

I appointed MacCabe Durney Barnes Consultants in February 2014 to carry out an independent planning review on the performance of planning functions in six selected planning authorities (Carlow, Cork, Galway and Meath County Councils and Cork and Dublin City Councils) in accordance with section 255 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 following an open public tendering process and subsequent tender evaluation assessment conducted by my Department on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender. I expect to receive the final report from the consultants in July 2014 and I intend to publish it having considered its contents.