Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
First, I thank you, Chairman, and the committee secretariat whose members have put in many hours on the Bill in the past number of weeks. I thank all the members of the committee, both Government and Opposition. We valued the engagement and the contributions. We have acceded to a number of changes in the legislation where we could. That will add value to the process and I hope we have demonstrated our willingness to do that by how we have conducted the hearings. We will continue to do that on Report Stage. I also thank my officials, who have done great work. It is a very demanding legislative measure and is very complicated. However, I am very confident that it will be of great service to the State into the future after it is enacted. It will provide a robust regime that will have public participation and transparency at its core and allow our maritime to be protected, in the first instance, and to be developed in a sustainable way. I thank everybody for all their engagement to date.
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