Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs

Planning Challenges in Offshore Renewable Energy: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Justin Moran:

It has always been our position there should be a stand-alone marine protected areas Bill. We have called for that jointly with Fair Seas, which is an organisation that has campaigned on the matter, on a number of occasions. That said, we do not necessarily know exactly what approach the Government is going to take. If there is a way that has been found to deliver those MPAs more swiftly with the same level of robustness, we would certainly be open to looking at that because we are very desirous that it would inform the development DMAP such that the designation of MPAs or the identification of potential MPAs could be integrated into that work.

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