Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 January 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion
Mr. Richard Cronin:
We have a head on what we are calling climate adaptation - it is head 13 on the identification of sites. This is the acceleration for that purpose. It is envisaged to be a faster approach. In the ocean environment policy statement, we can prioritise those sites in the first instance, so they would be the first sites we would look to. As such, there is a way to mitigate the issue the Deputy has raised.
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