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

That clarification from the Minister of State is helpful as he has said that it is about minor errors or trivial tweaks, which is now on the record. The issue I have here is that that is not laid out in the legislation. However, the fact that the Minister of State has said that and has put it on the record makes it clear that it should not be used for anything beyond minor errors or trivial tweaks.

I have a further question for the Minister of State. He has said that DMAPs are required to comply with the marine spatial planning directive which, of course, they are. On marine spatial plans in this legislation, section 17(1) specifies a number of the articles of the marine spatial planning directive and there is no such wording on DMAPs. Why are we not doing the same in respect of DMAPs in the legislation that we are doing for marine spatial plans?