Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left)
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566. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the granting of planning permission to a company (details supplied) to build at a location in County Wicklow despite an outstanding planning enforcement notice against it by Kilkenny County Council. [40034/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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My role in relation to the planning system is primarily to provide and update the legislative and policy guidance framework. The legislative framework comprises the Planning and Development Acts and the Planning and Development Regulations. Under planning legislation, the decision as to whether to grant a planning application, with or without conditions, is a matter for the relevant planning authority in the first instance, and An Bord Pleanála in the case of appeal. In making decisions on planning applications, planning authorities, and the Board, must consider the proper planning and sustainable development of the area, having regard to the provisions of the local development plan, any submissions or observations received, as well as relevant Ministerial or Government policies, including any guidelines issued by my Department.

Under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 I am specifically precluded from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case, with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála is or may be concerned.