Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is the only State-wide plan so that is a fair caveat. Let me get back to the detailed point because this is important. With a county development plan, for example, we have all the land uses mapped out and agreed. This is pertinent to the session we will have with the other Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, around marine protected areas, because until we have those or the interim measures, there will be a missing piece in the jigsaw. In the Minister of State's response to amendment No. 73, will he delineate what is the maritime spatial plan as distinct from the bits above and below it? As Deputy O'Callaghan mentions, we are proposing in the amendment to give some clarity to that.

We know the Minister of State will not accept the amendment.

We know that, and the Minister of State will set out the technical reasons for it. It would also be helpful if he were also to set out what is to be in that plan. Am I out of time or may I go on to the next one?