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| Posted By Caroline Lewis on 22/07/2009 ( Reads : 1102 ) | Comments (0) | Quarries |
| QUARRY LEGISLATION UNENFORCEABLE |
An 18 month investigation into why complaints about quarries around Ireland that are not meeting conditions imposed on them by local authorities has ended with a letter from the Ombudsman to FIE stating that the legislation designed to regulate quarries is unenforceable. Quarry registration was the last section of the 2000 Planning Act to be implemented and it did not come into effect until 2005. Now 4 years later the Ombudsman is unable to make finding of maladministration against a local authority for not enforcing the conditions they imposed as ‘they are not in a position legally to conduct an administrative action'. The Ombudsman noted that the Department has provided no time frame for amending the legislation. Not only has the environment been damaged by this long standing legislative failure and great hardships imposed on residents, but many millions in development levies can no longer be collected. Read the tale of our ongoing investigation | Letter to the Ombudsman | Press Release | Stephen Price's two part series in the Sunday Business Post on this story // Read More // |  |
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| Posted By Tony Lowes on 18/05/2009 ( Reads : 607 ) | Comments (1) | Quarries |
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| Posted By the editors on 24/05/2006 ( Reads : 1480 ) | Comments (0) | Quarries |
| 17 NOVEMBER 2005: CALL FOR UDARAS REPAYMENT OF 'LITTLE BURREN' QUARRY GRANT |
| Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE] have called for the repayment of a Údarás na Gaeltachta grant of £70,000 for an unauthorised quarry in Moycullen, County Galway.
Údarás chief executive Pádraig Ó hAoláin told the Dáil Public Accounts Committee yesterday that he would not be claiming the grant back, in spite of the fact that the quarry was located outside the Gaeltacht. The statement by Údarás chief executive that although the quarry was outside the Gaeltacht, it was 'like an island surrounded by land in the Gaeltacht' is not born out by the boundaries of the townlands in questions, which were marked by dry-stone famine walls of land mark quality and individually listed in the relevant 1956 legislation which defined the Gaeltacht.
A spokesman for FIE said this morning that 'The decision by Údarás na Gaeltachta not to recoup this grant after issuing a Revocation Notice in July of this year is further official support for the open flaunting of the planning system in a previously unspoiled karst landscape known as the 'Little Burren'.'
SEE WHAT THEY HAVE DONE! and the correspondence with the European Commission.
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| Posted By the editors on 18/11/2005 ( Reads : 1405 ) | Comments (0) | Quarries |
| 19 December: Call for implementation of Planning Act on quarries |
| On foot of the Taoiseach's intervention in a planning enforcement case [see our coverage], FIE points out that 'more than two years after the Planning Act came into force, the section requiring the registration of quarries has still not been implemented'. Our call was ignored by Dublin centred politicians, quarries are of no concern to them, but picked up by local radio stations in Roscommon, Clare, Mayo, Cavan, and Galway. The registration process would require publication and a chance for comment by the public, but an increasingly urban Ireland is turning its back on the quarry issue.
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| Posted By the editors on 21/12/2003 ( Reads : 1797 ) | Comments (0) | Quarries |
| Gravel quarry Wicklow Appeal ABP undated Planning |
| An Bord Pleanala
Re: 06/4208 Wicklow County Council
For Tony Lawlor
At Kilmurray South
Retention of extraction of gravel from pit.
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| Posted By Gabi on 09/04/2003 ( Reads : 2247 ) | Comments (0) | Quarries |
| Durrus Cork Quarry complaint EU 15 December 1997Legal |
| Irish failure to implement protection for upland blanket bog: Glanlough, Durrus, County Cork, Ireland // Read More // | |
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| Posted By Gabi on 09/04/2003 ( Reads : 1807 ) | Comments (0) | Quarries |
