Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is an obligation on the State. The European maritime spatial planning directive requires all member states to publish and implement their marine spatial plans by the first quarter of 2021. Even Deputy Ó Broin, despite all the posturing, had to admit in the end that, in the main, it is a good plan. Of course, it is a good plan. It is a comprehensive plan and it is one we should proceed with to protect our marine resources and to create a proper context for what happens in our marine territory and resource. That is the purpose of the plan. We should not keep going back to the position of refusing to make decisions and refusing to move on in terms of specifics.

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