Vol. 545 No. 1
244 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if a local authority has the right to issue a waste permit to a company which has been dissolved by the Companies Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29527/01]
246 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if a local authority can permit a company to whom it has granted planning permission and a waste permit to retain the planning permission if the company is dissolved and retain the waste permit issued in the name of company if the company is dissolved; if the local authority can renew or extend planning permission if the company is dissolved; renew or give a new waste permit requested in the name of a company if it has been dissolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29529/01]
I propose to take Questions Nos. 244 and 246 together.
Article 5 of the Waste Management (Permit) Regulations, 1998, provides that a local authority may, on application being made to it in that behalf, grant a waste permit, or refuse to grant such a permit, in relation to the carrying on by the applicant of a specified activity at a facility. Where an applicant for a waste permit is a body corporate which is subsequently struck off the companies register it is not evident that there is a basis for the grant or continuation of a permit in the name of that applicant.
With regard to planning permission, such permission is granted for development of land and attaches to the land in respect of which it is granted rather than to the application for planning permission.
