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)

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I believe the argument is weakened when Mr. Goodwin makes the case for industry involvement in auction design, for example. There are plenty of experts in the field who would have a comparable, if not direct, involvement in those other jurisdictions. We have seen in other areas where proximity can create more problems than it resolves. If there was that co-creation element Professor Crowe spoke about and which many of us in the committee were quite taken by, which would mean all relevant players were around the table at an early stage, why then would industry be needed on an expert body whose job is to provide fully independent and impartial evidence and science that will then underpin the discussions we have, for example, around designations such as network designations? That is what I am trying to understand.

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