Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 3 April 2019
228. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a response will issue to Sligo County Council in relation to planning approval for imperative reasons for overriding public interest for the necessary upgrade of Lough Talt water supply treatment plant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15586/19]
View answerOn 14 March 2019, the Minister for Housing Planning and Local Government referred to my Department a Statement of Case for imperative reasons of overriding public importance (IROPI) that it had received from Sligo County Council in respect of a planning application lodged with the Council by Irish Water for a proposed upgrading of the Lough Talt water treatment plant. My Department has reviewed the case and a constructive response in relation to the proposed compensatory measures issued to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government on 2 April, 2019.
