Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 13 January 2016
856. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the rate of invalidation of planning applications for west Cork being 61%, his views on this and if he accepts that accurate comparative statistics are a necessary tool in evaluating the degree to which water authorities are implementing the relevant guidelines he has set. [46844/15]
View answerAs indicated in the reply to the Deputy’s Question No. 552 of 10 November 2015, the annual planning statistics supplied by Cork County Council for inclusion in the national report published by my Department are not broken down on a Divisional basis. However, in order to be of assistance, the Council has supplied to my Department the following details of planning applications in its Western Division, which reflect a much lower - and reducing - rate of invalidations of planning applications in West Cork than that indicated in the Question:
|
Year |
Total number of planning applications received |
Number of applications received that were invalid |
Percentage of applications received that were invalid |
|
2013 |
769 |
220 |
28.61 % |
|
2014 |
771 |
194 |
25.16% |
|
2015 |
741 |
171 |
23.08 % |
