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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I take the Chairman's point that we should have. I am trying to do them in groups but we did not, actually. I will not dwell on this. I am not clear if the Minister through the marine planning policy statements will give the high level objectives in those statements. What is it that the Minister does not put into those statements that would be needed in terms of setting out policy for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: The guidelines are a layer on top of the MPPS. It is an additional-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is an additional layer providing detail.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am not clear why the guidelines are not running off that, as opposed to off the Minister. Why do they not run from the national marine policy statement rather than the Minister?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Should the Minister not, in the preparation, take policy direction from the national marine policy statement?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason information on the availability of DART lifts was not available online on the morning of 10 October 2021; the steps he is taking to ensure this information is always available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51727/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the recently upgraded lift at Seapoint station was out of service on the morning of 10 October 2021; the details of all replaced or upgraded DART station lifts which have been out of service within six months of these works taking place; the steps he will take to assist Irish Rail to ensure recently upgraded or replaced...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 54: In page 24, to delete lines 37 and 38, and in page 25, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute the following: “(5) The Minister shall— (a) cause a copy of the proposed guidelines prepared under this section or any amendment or revocation of such guidelines, to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas, together with any environmental assessment...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: The legislation gives the Minister quite a significant power concerning the issuing of directives. The Minister of State said the Minister sets the policy and the Oireachtas holds him to account. However, where is the ability of the Oireachtas to hold the Minister to account regarding directives? This section allows for the laying of a policy directive before the Houses of the Oireachtas,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: We are talking about directives in respect of the Bill.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 55: In page 25, line 3, after “shall” to insert “publish on its website and”. The purpose of this amendment is to ensure that the ministerial guidelines are published online. For the purposes of transparency and openness, it is very important that people can access them. Amendment No. 56 is similar in ensuring ready online access in terms...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is a small point but to be clear, the amendments do not seek to limit other forms of publication and do not seek to restrict publication to this medium. Putting this type of standard practice and good practice into the legislation will not have a limiting effect and it will not prohibit other forms of communication. It would be an additional safeguard in the process.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: As Deputy Ó Broin said, these are similar to the previous amendments but relate to the directives and guidelines. These are key aspects and these amendments shall be incorporated into the legislation. It is important to explicitly write in that when directives and guidelines are being drawn up, they specify that the Minister must act in accordance with the birds directive, the habitats...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will the Minister of State expand on why it would not be possible to comply with the requirements set out under our amendments? These amendments are much stronger than section 31 of the Bill and they are more detailed. As we discussed earlier in the week, they also have that hierarchy, which is important, and list the maritime spatial planning directive and our amendments to the marine...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister of State clearly has a different view on this, but to me, these directives are highly relevant to marine spatial planning. The maritime spatial planning directive, for example, is not listed in section 31. It is not there. I believe that this is highly relevant to the Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021. I am quite concerned that the Minister of State is of the view that these...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I do not understand why ensuring the Minister would act consistently with the methodologies and requirements of the maritime spatial planning directive, as proposed in our amendment No. 69, is incoherent. That is not in section 31, and it would act in compliance with the marine strategy framework directive. These are not in section 31. They are not listed in that section. How would it be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is fine to say it is all over the Bill but what I want to understand relates to the Minister. Amendment No. 69 is on policy directives. Where is it in the Bill in relation to policy directives? Section 31 certainly does not cover policy directives. The Minister of State might point to where in the Bill that is covered.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: While I do not necessarily agree I accept that is the Minister of State's but-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: On the policy directives the Minister can give under this Bill, where is in the legislation does it specify, specifically in respect of the directives, that they have to comply with the maritime spatial planning directive and the marine strategy framework, for example? That is the core of my question.