Written answers

Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Departmental Legal Cases

Photo of Robert TroyRobert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the judicial review concerning peat extraction from bogs here and the loophole in the legislation that is allowing companies to do so. [10443/17]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Neither the State, nor I as Minister, is a party to any current Court case involving a judicial review relating to peat extraction and planning legislation. I am not, therefore, in a position to indicate the present status of any specific such case.

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