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 have one final supplementary question on that.

That is fine, except if this was the case we would not need marine protected areas because that could possibly look after itself. I am not convinced by that. Would Wind Energy Ireland and its members fully support one of the suggestions by Professor Tasman Crowe that there clearly needs to be a prioritisation of the speedy implementation of the designation process in an appropriate way for those areas where Wind Energy Ireland's members have got maritime area consents, or are seeking them, to provide that certainty? Is this something that Wind Energy Ireland would support and encourage? Where Wind Energy Ireland has scientific information and data surveys, is this information the organisation would then be in a position to share with, for example, an expert body prepublication as a formal planning application?

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