Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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479. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on planning issues (details supplied) which have been raised with his Department regarding Carlow town and Carlow County Council. [35243/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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MacCabe Durney Barnes Consultants were appointed 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. The planning review is being informed by the consideration of planning matters referred to the Minister by a number of stakeholder groups and individuals including the planning issue referred to by the Deputy which was listed among sample case studies.

I expect to receive the final report from the consultants in the coming weeks and I intend to publish it having considered its contents.