Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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193. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 592 of 12 May 2015, if he will clarify that a case (details supplied) will be exempted from enforcement proceedings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22646/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The interpretation and application of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, including the enforcement provisions of the Act, is a matter for the relevant planning authority in the first instance, and may ultimately be a matter for the Courts.

I am not in a position to comment on the application of the planning law in individual cases. In this regard, I am specifically precluded under section 30 of the Act from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case with which a planning authority, or An Bord Pleanála on appeal, is or may be concerned with.