Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed)

Photo of Steven MatthewsSteven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

On the advisory group, at today's meeting we intended to invite Professor Crowe, obviously, but also to invite what I would loosely classify as user groups, such as fishers and commercial operators as represented by Wind Energy Ireland. Unfortunately, none of those was able to attend today. In the work that was done in the stakeholder engagement and the advisory group, which was considerable, I understand, were all of those groups, including recreation users, part of it? Did the feedback Professor Crowe got from that feed into the report? Will he outline the main concerns of the fishers and the commercial operators?

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