Seán Conlan (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

206. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his obligations to ensure that property within the ownership of Monaghan County Council is in compliance with the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2010, and in particular in relation to protected structures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18973/15]

Seán Conlan (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

207. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that the future viability of the Court House-Market House in Castleblayney in County Monaghan, a protected structure of architectural heritage, is protected and prevented from progressing from a state of endangerment into a state of dereliction, in contravention of the Planning and Development Acts; the funding that can be made available, as a matter of urgency, to prevent this from occurring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18974/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

I propose to take Questions Nos. 206 and 207 together.

Section 58 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, provides that an owner and occupier of a protected structure or a proposed protected structure must, to the extent consistent with the rights and obligations arising out of their respective interests in the structure, ensure that the structure, or any element of it which contributes to its special architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical interest, is not endangered.

Compliance with section 58 in respect of the building mentioned is a matter for Monaghan County Council. 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.