Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that the planning fee for use of land as a burial ground is more than three times higher than the planning fee for the provision of a house. [55282/22]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Article 156 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended (the Regulations), states that a fee shall be paid to a planning authority by an applicant when making a planning application. Class 1 of Part 12 of Schedule 9 to the Regulations sets the amount of the fee payable in respect of a planning application for the provision of a house at €65. Class 12 of Part 12 of Schedule 9 to the Regulations sets the amount of the fee payable in respect of a planning application for the use of land as a burial ground at €200, or €50 for each hectare of site area, whichever is the greater.

Therefore, the fee payable for an application for the use of land as burial grounds is calculated on a case by case basis and is dependent on the size of the area of the land proposed to be utilised for burials and is not based on the number of burials, whilst the fee for the provision a house is a fixed fee per individual house.