Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress over the past six months in respect of the town centre, Naas, County Kildare, with particular reference to the urgent need to restart the project and encourage a major anchor tenant into the centre, thereby facilitating the reinvigoration of the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45487/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The management of issues related to this development are primarily a matter for Kildare County Council and one in which I have no function.  

Under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, I am precluded from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála is or may be involved, except in very specific circumstances.

As outlined in previous replies to the Deputy's Question Numbers 1265 and 1266 of 13th July 2017, I understand from Kildare County Council that a Receiver has been appointed in relation to the site in question and the Council continues to encourage the Receiver to develop the site or put the property up for sale as soon as possible.

However, it would be inappropriate for me to comment further on the specific case.