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

I will respond briefly because I want to move on to the other amendments. When we think about it, we have the national marine planning framework which is not unlike the national planning framework. It sits on top and contains our high-level strategic objectives. The maritime spatial plans are not unlike development plans in that they get into an awful lot of granular detail. The reason for the amendment is that the subsection is meant to be about "providing for land-sea interactions and securing coordination with" and our preference is to be much more explicit that it is not just co-ordination with the high-level strategic objectives but in specific geographical locations where there are plans or planning, to require it there. The Minister's argument is that it is implicit in the inclusion of the national marine planning framework. What we are saying is that we want it to be much more explicit so that there is nothing lost in terms of the interaction in a specific geographical location between a specific land-sea interaction and the relevant maritime plan for that area or planning in that area. That is the rationale.