Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion
1:50 pm
Dr. Anne Marie O'Hagan:
The strategic infrastructure regime as it applies on land gives nationally strategic projects to An Bord Pleanála to consent. Essentially, this legislation proposes that major infrastructure developments in the marine environment, from the low water mark to the 200 mile limit, go to An Bord Pleanála to consent.