Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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916. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the process for registration of a right of way on private lands; if a register of rights of way is kept and by whom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12010/15]

Ann Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Labour)
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Section 7 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010 requires the inclusion of a mandatory objective in an area's development plan for “the preservation of public rights of way which give access to seashore, mountain, lakeshore, riverbank or other place of natural beauty or recreational utility, which public rights of way shall be identified both by marking them on at least one of the maps forming part of the development plan and by indicating their location on a list appended to the development plan”.

It is, of course, a matter for planning authorities to implement such policies in the context of their development plans. In this context, and as statutory consultee, my Department continues to provide advice and comments to planning authorities on their draft development plans and indeed may refer to matters relating to rights of way from time to time, as appropriate.