Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

Section 2 is the definition section. I have a very simple inquiry. There is a difference between the common law definition of "foreshore" in the Foreshore Act 1933 and the later definition in the Planning and Development Act 2000, for example. Is the definition that the Minister of State is using an extension of the 1933 definition? It is important to have clarification because there are three or four possible definitions. Does the Minister of State's definition extend the 1933 definition to include the distance seawards?

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