Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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257. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the independent review into planning irregularities in six local authorities; when the review will be published; if he will commit to a debate in Dáil Éireann on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24362/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I refer to the reply to Question No. 556 of 6 May 2015. MacCabe Durney Barnes Consultants were appointed in February 2014 to carry out an independent planning review on the performance of planning functions in six selected planning authorities (Carlow, Cork, Galway and Meath County Councils and Cork and Dublin City Councils) in accordance with section 255 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. 

I expect to receive the final report from the consultants shortly and I subsequently intend to publish it having considered its contents. The issue of a debate on the report is a matter for consideration at that stage.