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 will take this away and consider further how we will articulate it. In our thinking on this, we considered participation and the publicity about a site. In the Deputy's absence we spoke about how we would have signage around a site. This is for coastal sites. Over the horizon a particular group of people would be involved and the monitoring systems for these can be much more specific with satellites and radio signals. For coastal sites we originally thought of having a wider level of information or greater awareness among the public that they are looking at a marine protected area, including a list of what is being protected, stating the reasons for that and providing information on who they should contact if things go wrong. How to code this into legislation might be difficult. The point the Deputy has made is one we will take away and consider. The point of view of someone who wants to raise an alert about non-compliance is not something we have fully described. Perhaps it would be useful.

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