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Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We oppose this amendment. Section 96(6)(a) of the Bill, as it stands, provides that within six months of being granted the development permission, a MAC holder must produce a rehabilitation schedule and thereby put a place a plan to restore the area when the work has finished. This amendment, as we read it, will mean that the MAC holder will only have to produce the rehabilitation schedule...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our concern is that this amendment will facilitate the practice I have just outlined. This is a loophole that could potentially be exploited by the big developers. We could get a phenomenon at sea that we see very frequently on land. In the way this amendment is framed, there is a loophole that developers could potentially exploit.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not entirely happy with that.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Nash asked where the threshold of more than five turbines and a total output of more than 5 MW comes from. It comes from Schedule 10 to the Bill. That is a threshold in the Government's Bill for classes of development specified for the purposes of Chapter 3 of Part XXI, the numbering of which gives you some idea of the complexity of this Bill's cross-referencing with the Planning and...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an assertion; it is not an answer.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State and his officials will be familiar with the Marine Institute’s Real Map of Ireland, but I do not know whether the public is that familiar with it. It begs the point. While I realise the Minister of State said that, in the context of the NMPF, there was public consultation, this was all new to those at the public meeting held in my area, the Save Our Seafront...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Have we discussed this amendment? I wanted to say something about it.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 37a: In page 68, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “Activities for which an application for a MAC shall not be considered 77.A MAC shall not be granted for any development of the maritime area where such development consists of: (a) an installation for the production of energy by harnessing the power of the wind, within 12 nautical miles of...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The wording proposed in amendment No. 21 is a little bit gender-specific. There is a little bit of a problem with it. There are other gender identities which this binary gender description does not take into account when setting out the balance required on the board. I ask the Minister of State to consider that. The provision is very binary in that regard.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not sure the Minister of State has answered my point.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps the Minister of State should consider withdrawing it then because it is quite binary. Rather than having an excessively binary requirement, it may be better not to include the provision. We get the point. We want gender balance but we have to take all gender identities into account. I do not know how that issue can be resolved but, if the Minister of State recognises this as a...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this amendment No. 21?

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry; I am trying to keep up.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. Fair play to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle but she could not go slow enough for the amount of stuff we have to deal with here.

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 18: In page 37, to delete lines 16 to 23 and substitute the following: “(3) Where the Minister ascertains an inconsistency referred to in subsection (2), he or she shall— (a) make a recommendation in writing to the competent authority (D) to amend the draft DMAP to address the inconsistency, or (b) in relation only to an inconsistency in respect of...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I do not accept the Minister of State's response to our amendment and he has not addressed the substantial point, even if he does not agree technically with the amendment. He has not addressed the substantial point. It seems there is agreement that there will be an interregnum in which we will not have done what we should for marine protected areas with respect to these relevant...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What?

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the point. If there is an acceptance, which there certainly seems to be from some of the officials we met yesterday, that we are behind the curve in protecting areas and it is likely to be some time before they are protected, then there is a problem with these legacy projects, which will result in large numbers of giant wind turbines placed very close to the shore along the east...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 11: In page 29, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “(3) Within 2 months following enactment the Minister shall implement a process to provide for interim protection in the marine environment of the existing NMPF to ensure the designation of marine protected areas in accordance with Article 13(4) of Directive 2008/56/EC is not compromised and...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This amendment is not in any way an attempt to dis the work that has been put in by officials to the marine planning framework or around this Bill. It is a serious piece of legislative work. However, there is a concern and the Minister of State and his officials know what that concern is. I asked one of the officials yesterday whether we are behind the curve on marine protected areas. He...