Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Marine Protected Areas: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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Is there space within that for what are known as other affected area-based conservation measures to be used in parallel? Is there discussion around what are known as no take zones to ensure we have a belt and braces approach to the maximum protection of marine biodiversity as we are making those really important decisions about large-scale offshore wind energy?