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)
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
What are Professor Crowe's thoughts on head 14(5) and that trade-off? The legislation cannot be overly prescriptive for all of the reasons he outlined. However, the legislation should at least try to set out some framework within which those types of decisions could be made because they could be very big decisions. They could have very significant consequences either for marine biodiversity or for what is permissible in the sea and how that impacts on renewable targets or inshore fishing communities.
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