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)
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Before Mr. Fogarty does that, I just want to ask him to make a supplementary comment. If we look at terrestrial planning enforcement, we do know who to call. As many of the witnesses have long experience, knowing who to call in and of itself does not fix the problem. I could point to any number of long-standing, egregious planning breaches in my constituency, and I am sure Deputy O'Callaghan could as well. I welcome Mr. Fogarty's comments in regard to who to call, but does he have anything to say about how, even when we do have somebody to call, we ensure the monitoring and enforcement take place? On the terrestrial side, we have a whole other set of problems that we have learned from, through bitter experience, and it would be good for everybody if we did not repeat those mistakes and we must have a conversation in 20 years' time about how we fix that bit of the enforcement.
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