Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To follow up on some other members' points, I have a concern about biodiversity and in particular about offshore wind. I share Mr. Cunniffe's excitement about the potential for offshore wind in the context of meeting our 2030 targets, but my concern is that if we fast-track marine planning but do not have the designated zones in place, it will only lead to more judicial reviews and planning objections. While Deputy Bruton stated that politicians and communities are objecting, in general judicial reviews arise because we do not screen out the bad applications in the first instance. The way in which we could do that is by having the marine protected areas zoned before dealing with the marine planning, or by having the two go hand in hand. I would like to hear our guests' perspective on that. Surely the industry, too, wants that type of certainty in regard to the marine protection zones.