Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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451. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding planning regulation; the enforcement of this regulation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47356/14]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Under planning legislation, enforcement of planning control is a matter for the planning authority, which can take action if a development does not have the required permission, or where the terms of a permission granted have not been complied with. Planning authorities have substantial enforcement powers under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. A planning authority may issue an enforcement notice, non-compliance with which is an offence, in connection with an unauthorised development, requiring such steps as the authority considers necessary to be taken within a specified period. If an enforcement notice is not complied with, the planning authority may itself take the specified steps and recover the expense incurred in doing so. A planning authority may also seek a court order requiring any particular action to be done or not to be done.

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