Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if planning guidelines exist in respect of a matter (details supplied). [21583/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Individual military installations may have a variety of different functions; therefore, no specific set of guidelines exists regarding development in close proximity to military installations. Planning applications should be considered by a planning authority on a case by case basis taking all relevant factors and statutory requirements into account. It is open to a military installation or the Minister for Defence, on payment of the prescribed fee, to make a submission or observation in writing to a planning authority in relation to a planning application in respect of development in proximity to a military installation where it may have concerns regarding any such proposed development, which shall be taken into account by the planning authority in its consideration of the application.

It should also be noted that where a planning permission has been granted by a planning authority, the Minister for Defence under Section 44A(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, may request the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, and with the approval of the Government, to make an order revoking or modifying a grant of planning permission where the carrying out of development to which the grant of permission relates is likely to be harmful to the security or defence of the State and the revocation or modification concerned is necessary in the public interest.