S.I. No. 232/2020 - Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 181(2)(a)) (No. 2) Order 2020

1. This Order may be cited as the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Section 181(2)(a)) (No. 2) Order 2020.

2. The

Planning and Development Act 2000

(No. 30 of 2000) shall not apply, pursuant to subsections (2) to (2AA) of section 181 of that Act, to the development described in the Schedule proposed to be carried out by or on behalf of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland.

SCHEDULE

Site

Live Animal Border Control Post at Interim Government Control Centre, Rosslare Harbour

Address

FORMER ROSSLARE IMPORT CENTRE, N25, ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD, Y35 P797

Description

The development is for a single storey live animal inspection building of approximately 335m

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to provide stabling and inspection facilities for live animals, staff welfare facilities; signage and all ancillary site works; all within the existing boundary of lands of the former Rosslare Import Centre, for the provision of facilities that are required by reason of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union in order to provide for the required infrastructure for customs, sanitary and phytosanitary and health checks and controls.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform,

25 June, 2020.

PASCHAL DONOHOE,

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

1 OJ No. CI 384, 12.11.2019, p.1

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

30

th June,

2020.

WHEREAS the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform -

(

a

) is satisfied that the carrying out of the development described in the Schedule proposed to be carried out by or on behalf of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland is required by reason of an emergency being the exceptional circumstances arising as a result of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from membership of the European Union and the expiry of the transition period provided in Article 126 of the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Agency Community

1

,

(

b

) has considered whether an environmental impact assessment or an appropriate assessment, or both such assessments, of the development so proposed to be carried out, is or are required and is satisfied, having had regard to Parts X and XAB of the

Planning and Development Act 2000

(No. 30 of 2000), that no such assessment or assessments is or are required, and therefore is satisfied that an application to An Bord Pleanála for approval under section 181(2A)(b) of the

Planning and Development Act 2000

is not required, and

(

c

) has complied with

section 181

(2)(aa) of the

Planning and Development Act 2000

,

NOW THEREFORE the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by

section 181

(2)(a) of the

Planning and Development Act 2000

(No. 30 of 2000), hereby makes the following order