Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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221. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the mechanism in place to ensure that the Dublin Airport Authority abides by all the conditions laid out by An Bord Pleanála in the planning permission granted for the second runway at Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11293/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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On 7 April 2016, Dublin Airport Authority ( DAA ) announced that it is progressing its plans to deliver a new runway for Dublin Airport, planning permission for which was granted in 2007. The 3,110 metre runway will be built approximately 1.6 km north of the existing main runway and is expected to be delivered in 2020. It is understood that DAA expects to commence works on site before the end of the year and that it is presently working at discharging the pre-commencement conditions of the planning permission for the runway.

There are extensive enforcement provisions provided for in Part VIII of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, with a view to ensuring that works pertaining to permitted developments are carried out in accordance with the planning permission granted and any associated conditions and that no unauthorised development takes place. If a person is of the view that any development works being undertaken are not in compliance with the permission granted or are unauthorised, s/he may make a written complaint to the relevant planning authority who shall investigate the matter and take any appropriate enforcement action, including where necessary the seeking of a Court order requiring that development is carried out in conformity with the planning permission and any condition pertaining to that permission.

Under section 30 of the 2000 Act, I am specifically precluded from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case, including a matter of planning enforcement, with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála is or may be concerned.