Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the European Commission has indicated at any time concerns or comments in relation to the general scheme of the Housing and Planning and Development Bill 2019 and on developments on access to justice in Ireland since the publication of the scheme in 2019; if so, the detail of such concerns; if he will provide a copy of such correspondence from the European Commission and the responses furnished by the Irish authorities on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7699/22]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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My Department has received correspondence from the EU Commission in relation to the General Scheme of the Housing and Planning and Development Bill 2019 and has been in further communication with the Commission in this regard. This correspondence and communication was in the context of, and falls under, an ongoing infringement procedure (Case 2012/4028) and is therefore confidential. Accordingly it would not be appropriate to release the correspondence and details of the communications in this regard as the case is still ongoing.