Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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552. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the percentage of planning applications invalidated by the different local authorities in September 2015, with the information for Cork County Council by respective division. [39527/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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My Department collates and publishes a range of planning statistics on a yearly basis, including the number of invalid planning applications received by each planning authority. The latest published statistics - for 2014 - are available on my Department’s website, as follows:.

The annual planning statistics for Cork County Council are not broken down on a Divisional basis.

Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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553. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government while planning notices for uninhabited islands are required to be placed on mainland piers, the reason it is now required by Cork County Council that inhabited islands have to place planning notices on the mainland and other piers, a practice which is considered offensive to island communities. [39528/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Article 19 of the Planning a nd Development Regulations 2001– 2015, made under section 33(1)(b) of the Planning and Development Act 2000, specifies requirements in relation to displaying notice of an application for planning permission. Paragraph (3) provides that “Where a planning authority considers that the erection or fixing of a single site notice is not sufficient to comply with the requirements of sub-articles (1) and (2), or does not adequately inform the public, the authority may require the applicant to erect or fix such further site notice or notices in such a manner and in such terms as it may specify and to submit to the authority such evidence as it may specify in relation to compliance with any such requirements.” It is a matter for each planning authority to determine the circumstances in which it specifies additional requirements in relation to planning applicati on notices under Article 19(3) and the Minister has no function in the matter.