Planning Issues

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 11 December 2013

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Questions (110)

Luke 'Ming' Flanagan

Question:

110. Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to require developers to ensure that information submitted in planning applications is factually accurate; if he intends to make it a criminal offence for developers to include misleading or false information in planning applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53264/13]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

Much of the information provided by a planning applicant on a planning application form and, where relevant, in response to a further information request, is checked by the planning authority in the course of its consideration of the application.

The giving of false information by a developer could lead to a permission granted being deemed invalid by the courts. I have no current plans to amend the Planning Act or Regulations in this regard.