Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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453. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to outline his plans to change the planning process relating to the persons or bodies that can lodge submissions or objections to strategic infrastructure development projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1087/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, and the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016, any person or body may, within the requisite period and on payment of the appropriate fee, make a submission or observations to An Bord Pleanála in respect of an application for permission for a proposed strategic infrastructure development (SID). I have no proposals to change the planning process for SID projects in this regard.