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

I thank the Minister for both responses. I have two further questions. With respect to the licences, would that also apply to the legacy projects where the MAC is essentially provided by the Minister rather than MARA, prior to the establishment of MARA? Obviously, those are the licences we would be concerned about at the moment.

Will all a MACs stipulate in their conditions the period of time that the planning application has to be applied for? Could it be a case where a MAC is applied for and there is no specific requirement within the period of the MAC to apply for planning, that MARA may take the view there is an undue delay? We keep making comparisons with terrestrial planning and our own experience. It is to work out whether at any stage there is the threat to the marine of the kind of things we see with land hoarding. That is the motivation of the question.