Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)
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499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on a review of planning regulations in relation to a new and separate exempted development threshold for stand-alone nutrient storage, in view that the thresholds and conditions associated with the exemption are practical and enable farmers to make the necessary investment to deliver the required nutrient storage capacity to mitigate agriculture pressure on water quality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36359/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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While the Planning and Development Act 2024 (Act of 2024) was enacted in October 2024, it is in the process of being commenced and the provisions of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (Act of 2000), and associated Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (Regulations of 2001) remain in force until the relevant sections of the Act of 2024 are commenced and the corresponding sections of the Act of 2000 are repealed.

A review of the current Exempted Development Regulations is ongoing and a wider public consultation on exempted development regulations is due to commence later this month. Members of the public, state bodies and all other parties will be able to make submissions in writing as part of the consultation process.

The Government cannot pre-empt the outcome of any consultation and therefore no final decision has been made in respect of revision to current exempted development provisions. This includes agricultural exemptions for storage of slurry, effluent or soiled water collected from agricultural farmyards. Any update to Exempted Development Regulations will require positive resolutions by both Houses of the Oireachtas before it can be signed into law.