asked the Minister for Local Government if any local authority has to date adopted a town plan; and if there is any statutory obligation on any local authority so to do.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Adoption of Town Plans.
The only planning scheme so far made under the Town and Regional Planning Acts is that for Dublin County Borough. In that case it was decided by the court that the Dublin Corporation, which had passed a resolution under Section 26 of the Town and Regional Planning Act, 1934, deciding to make a planning scheme, were obliged to make such a scheme within a certain time which the court delimited for the purpose. A local authority which has not passed such a resolution is not obliged to make a scheme.
Is the Minister not aware of the farcical situation arising from the fact that a very great number of local authorities throughout the country have passed such resolutions and none of them has produced plans? Would it not be far better to regularise the situation rather than have a crop of these cases coming up?
I have no comments to make on that at this stage.
"Afraid to make a comment," I think, is the real answer.