Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State clearly has a different view on this, but to me, these directives are highly relevant to marine spatial planning. The maritime spatial planning directive, for example, is not listed in section 31. It is not there. I believe that this is highly relevant to the Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021. I am quite concerned that the Minister of State is of the view that these guidelines, such as the maritime spatial planning directive, are somehow totally irrelevant. I do not understand that. I might be misunderstanding the Minister of State because I do not believe the Minister of State could be saying that these directives are irrelevant. They are obviously core to maritime area planning. Perhaps we could just get better clarification on that. I feel I must be misunderstanding Minister of State's comments.