Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 10 February 2009
338 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Transport if he has received correspondence from local residents in relation to concerns over the ownership, operation of, and exemptions from planning permission of a tower (details supplied) in County Mayo; and when he will direct that an official from the Irish Aviation Authority meet with local residents to hear and address their concerns. [4527/09]
View answerMy Department has no record of receiving any such correspondence.
I am advised by the Irish Aviation Authority that the Authority has a radar station on Dooncarton Mountain, Glengad, Co Mayo. This is one of a number of such radar stations around the country. It was built in the mid 1990s in accordance with planning permission granted by Mayo County Council.
I am further advised by the Authority that it understands that a planning application has recently been lodged with Mayo County Council by another party on a site adjacent to the radar station. I am advised that this site and proposed lattice tower development is not associated in any way with the Authority.
