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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...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 10: In page 29, to delete lines 20 to 28 and substitute the following: "(2) Not later than 1 month following enactment (of this legislation), the Minister shall commence and carry out a review of the existing NMPF to— (a) review its compliance with the MSP Directive, (b) provide for interim protections for the marine environment, and (c) in respect of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the risk of blowing our own trumpet on this issue, we have always said that whether it was inflation, rent freezes or anything else proposed by Government or Opposition parties, it would not work because rents were already too high. We need to set rents. The obvious gap relates to any new property. The Government said we will solve the problem by increasing supply, but any cap or freeze...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very slow.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Minister of State, Deputy English.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [58591/21]