Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will try anyway. Amendment No. 84 is a technical amendment to enable amendment No. 85, as Deputy Cian O'Callaghan said. Amendment No. 85 sets out new provisions for review requirements of the first NMPF. They contain many of the same issues as earlier amendments, including limitations on ministerial consultations, while also providing for particular pillars of sustainable development and sectors to the exclusion of others and thereby upsetting the neutrality of the legislation.

Reference is also made to matters relating to marine protected areas that this Bill simply cannot legislate for as they do not yet have a legal existence pending the introduction of the marine protected areas legislation. While I cannot dwell further on this matter because the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, intends updating the committee in due course, I assure members that any review of the NMPF will be undertaken in the context of the pertaining regulatory environment and the best available information.

The EPA is a prescribed body in the context of strategic environmental assessment and therefore it will come into play in this regard. Equally, if we look at the national marine planning framework document, all the coastal built heritage sites are mapped out on page 90. All the UNESCO coastal sites are also mapped out in detail there. All the shipwrecks in Irish waters are shown on pages 92 and 93. Therefore, all that information is there in the document on those pages.