Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. P?draic Fogarty:
It is head 17(2)(x). There are a few points about monitoring but that one is about the report on the performance of MPAs. Head 19 states "The Management Authorities shall [...]
c) review and monitor and report on such plans to the Minister ...". There are other things in it as well but there is no word in it about what the frequency of reporting should be or exactly what we should be reporting on, especially around ecology.
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