Mr. John Wilde Crosbie:

The foreshore's location is not the issue. The real issue is what area the local authority controls.

This is vital in terms of allowing people to participate in their local planning process. The process envisaged for the larger zones to be under the control of An Bord Pleanála and, therefore, outside the remit of the local council. In this regard, an inshore zone is defined in the Bill as what a lawyer would term the old common law foreshore, which is the high and low watermark.