Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 10 February 2009
453 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that Dublin City Council’s water supply from the Vartry reservoir is not threatened by works at a quarry in Roundwood, County Wicklow. [4389/09]
View answerThe operation and management of public water supplies is a matter for the relevant local authority. Under planning legislation, the enforcement of planning control is a matter for the planning authority. The Minister has no role in the matter and is specifically precluded under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000, from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála is, or may be, concerned.
