Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 November 2021

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed)

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

I am not trying to put words in the Minister of State's mouth, but we are getting somewhere. That means, for example, that when a review of the national marine planning framework is triggered, that could be the development of one or more marine spatial plans which as they are developed, with their public participation statements informing the public participation, then amend the national marine planning framework. Likewise, within those MSPs there are DMAPs and they are amended, so it is a constant evolving process. The reason I am saying this is that if that is the case, that answers the question for which we were seeking an answer earlier. The moment either an individual MSP is to be developed or a there is a macro review, the public participation statement kicks in and there is public participation.

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