Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Harnessing Ireland's Ocean Wealth: Marine Co-ordination Group

Mr. John Shaw:

I will start before handing over to colleagues. Now that the Government has a new climate action plan, many of the actions in it will probably feature more prominently in Harnessing Our Ocean Wealth. It will be necessary to produce a new or updated plan because the existing one finishes in 2020. I expect that climate action will feature prominently in the next round, perhaps more prominently than it features in the current version. There are objectives in the forthcoming national marine planning framework that relate specifically to climate action. Ms Graham can talk more about that planning framework and the Marine Planning and Development Management Bill. Some of the heads of this Bill have been published while other heads to facilitate offshore wind energy will be published very shortly. That work is well advanced and involves very intensive cross-departmental work to try to get the legislation over the line as quickly as possible. My colleagues will discuss fishing and how it features in the figures.

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