Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the legislation which regulates car parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61555/22]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), all development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or associated Regulations, requires planning permission including car parks. An application for planning permission should be made to the relevant planning authority under section 34 of the Act. When making a decision on the application, the planning authority may under Schedule 5 of the Act, if granting permission, attach a condition regulating and controlling the extent of parking places required in, on or under structures of a particular class or size or services or facilities for the parking, loading, unloading or fuelling of vehicles.

Where planning permission is granted and conditions are attached, the applicant may, if they so choose, appeal the decision to An Bord Pleanála under section 37 of the Act within four weeks of the decision of the planning authority.

It should be noted that, under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), I am specifically 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 concerned.