Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 18 July 2013
455. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government with respect to general policy directive PSSP PD-1/12 issued by his Department earlier this year and requiring inter alia that overall responsibility for planning enforcement be assigned to a senior officer of at least senior executive officer grade, if he will name the local authorities that have now implemented this directive. [36096/13]
View answerI issued Planning and Development (Planning Enforcement) Policy Directive 2013 to all planning authorities under section 29 of the Planning and Development Act, as amended, in May 2013. Section 29 specifies that the Minister may, from time to time, issue policy directives to planning authorities regarding any of their functions under this Act. It also specifies that planning authorities shall comply with any such directives in the performance of their functions. I am not aware that any planning authority has failed to comply with the Directive in question.
