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

Richard Boyd Barrett: With all due respect, it is an advance on nothing. It is an advance on the Foreshore Act, yes. I fully accept that.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fully accepted. However, it is still not as specific as a DMAP or another plan with an acronym might be. Therefore, there is more flexibility for things to happen than there might be under a more specific plan. There is a difference between a framework and a DMAP. I am concerned that, if someone can get a development consent on the basis of a fairly general framework, it will be an easier...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Minister of State is saying seems reasonable but I would like some clarification. Is he envisaging the possibility that an illegal decision that might be taken in Europe about compliance with a particular directive might not be covered off in the policy statement because it is new?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a matter of interest, does that imply the necessity to review the policy statement subsequently?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It essentially implies a review of the policy statement.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe my question was answered on Second Stage - I cannot remember - but why are we so far behind everyone else in terms of marine protected areas? How does the rest of Europe have so many more marine protected areas? Is there a reason for that?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That did not quite answer my question. I am genuinely asking for an explanation. This is not a critique of the Minister of State, as his is a new Government, but I am curious. Perhaps the officials know the answer. How are we so far behind in terms of marine protected areas?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Please do.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I get a brief explanation on what subsection (2) means?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is all I wanted to know.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is planning permission. It does not in any way relate to the surveying activities.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: This applies to licences.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but there have been failures to transpose and failures to comply with directives. We have suffered big fines and there have been big oversights with respect to real things that have happened in the real world. There were subsequent acknowledgements we messed up and failed to comply. Some of these issues are outstanding. This is not a small matter. I understand the marine spatial...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Partition.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is partition.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Minister of State is saying is worrying.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State might note that President Herzog brought the issue up at the conference.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am also very disappointed that the Taoiseach has left. I hope the Minister of State will pass on the points I wish to make, which largely revolve around the issue of Palestine. It is an extremely urgent matter that six Palestinian prisoners are currently on hunger strike. Two of them, Qayed Fasfus and Mukdad Qawasmeh, have been on hunger strike for almost 100 days. Their lives are very...