Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 October 2013
378. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of locations at which planning permission has been granted for electricity generating wind farms; if he is satisfied that the planning process was sufficiently and adequately observed to assuage the concerns of local communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44824/13]
View answerMy Department does not collate the specific statistical data requested. With regard to whether the planning process was observed in each instance, the enforcement of the conditions attached to a planning permission is a matter for the relevant planning authority and I have no role in that regard. As Minister I am precluded, under section 30 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000, from involvement in relation to any individual planning application or appeal with which a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála is or may be concerned.
