Section 33 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 provides that regulations regarding applications for permission may be made requiring, inter alia, that planning authorities must notify prescribed bodies of the receipt of certain classes of development. Article 28 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 lists the bodies prescribed for this purpose. While An Taisce has been a prescribed body in respect of a number of different classes of development since 1964, State funds have only been provided in the years 2001 to 2003 to assist the organisation in carrying out its functions as a prescribed body under the planning code.
The list of bodies prescribed for the purposes of planning applications was reviewed in the making of the 2001 regulations. There are no proposals at this stage to amend the regulations or to extend existing financing arrangements.