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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: We are now talking about MACs. It relates to permission to occupy the area.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Can the regulations specify classes of amendments that are non-material amendments, which are "trivial, insignificant minor, or inconsequential"?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Given that undertaking, I will withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 172 to 174, inclusive, will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 175 and 177 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: It is the rehabilitation of the consent that is to be included in the MAC and not the rehabilitation of anything done under MAC. That is my understanding. I will leave it to the Minister of State to respond.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: The Minister of State would probably give better clarification.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: I ask the Deputy to talk about this section.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: I call Deputy Boyd Barrett, who wants to ask a question.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: We did our best.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: No, it cannot.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: The MAC does not give permission to do that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: We addressed this point when the Deputy was drawn away.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: The Deputy is referring to section 92, to which I have tabled an amendment. We will move to that section next. I call Deputy Cian O'Callaghan, who asked the original question.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 178: In page 78, to delete lines 5 to 25 and substitute the following: “(6) The holder of a MAC to which section 73(1)applies shall submit the proposed programme of rehabilitation as approved by the Board no later than three months before undertaking any development the subject of such permission and which is for the purposes of the maritime usage the subject...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Therefore, when the conditions are applied to the developer or development, based on environmental impact assessments and baseline studies that will tell us what condition the area was in and to which it must be restored, or better, is it then necessary to reopen the MAC process? Could it be the case that the MAC would just state that it would be necessary for the holder to comply with the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: To clarify, it will only be possible to reopen a specific part of the MAC process in respect of the rehabilitation part of the licence.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: It is not opening up the entire MAC process again.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Okay. On that basis, I withdraw my amendment.