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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual target for new housing units provided by local authorities and approved housing bodies broken down by newbuilds, both direct build and turnkey, Part V, regeneration, and voids, in each of the years from 2016 to 2023, in tabular form. [5141/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (1 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount returned from his Department’s allocation in each of the years between 2018 and 2022, inclusive in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5142/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (1 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount carried over by his Department’s allocation in each of the years between 2018 and 2022, inclusive in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5143/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (1 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on disability service waiting lists for children’s disability networks teams in the Kilbarrack area; the number of additional staff recruitments that are needed to reduce this waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4881/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amy Fitzpatrick has been missing now for 15 years. Amy disappeared when she was just 15 years old while staying in the Costa del Sol. Her family is heartbroken, as any family would be. They just want to be able to find Amy, bring her home and lay her to rest. New evidence has emerged recently about a location where it is believed Amy's remains are buried. Despite this new evidence, there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The third paragraph of Professor Crowe's opening statement says, "A key provision of the Bill, perhaps the single most important one ... is for stakeholder consultation and participation throughout the process," and he went on to explain the importance of co-creation. That line almost sounds like he feels that the Bill allows for lots of co-creation and stakeholder participation but his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The professor's input will be very useful to the committee when we compile our pre-legislative report because we need to specifically consider the heads and see if there are particular areas that need to be tidied up. Head 7 concerns the identification of potential marine protected areas. My reading of head 7 is that it is a fairly top-down process - the Minister does it and there are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Professor Crowe for the clarification. Earlier he made the point very well about how successful co-creation can be. He gave really good examples of marine areas. We all want to see a reduction in conflict and as much conservation as possible. Often the best way to get conservation is through practical measures on which everyone can agree because enforcement can only take you so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Professor Crowe for that. I want to ask about the second point in the opening statement, which he made very well, which is that the existence of an MPA does not mean other activities cannot happen. He said that in some cases there may be grounds for quite heavily protected areas in the EU biodiversity strategy, and for seeking that 10% of the maritime area would be heavily...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Can Professor Crowe give us any sense of the timeframe we may be looking at for identifying some of the areas that need heavier levels of protection and for creating that baseline? Where are we on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Is the information already there on some of those areas that need to be much more heavily protected?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank Professor Crowe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a meeting at 11 a.m. that I have to go to. I hope to be back afterwards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Deputy Ó Broin hopes to be back shortly as well. There is a lot more that we need to get through here. As far as I can tell, the Bill does not mention anything around areas of strict protection or the importance of carbon-rich habitats, although head 13 talks about facilitating climate adaptation. It does not mention acoustic monitoring networks and the importance of those. While...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Do those sorts of areas need to be explicitly mentioned in the Bill? Is that important?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: My question is whether it is important that that is explicitly mentioned in the Bill or whether it is fine that the Bill goes ahead as it is without mentioning these things. That is what I am asking the witnesses. I think we are all agreed on the importance of it, but does it need to be in the legislation? We are looking at the legislation and recommendations on it. Do we need to make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have to leave but I will be back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I have a few questions picking up on the point around head 7(5) and the list of potential marine protected area designations. There is a number of different criteria that the Minister shall consider. Some criteria say that the Minister shall "seek", "consider" or "apply". For example, the head provides that the Minister shall "consider sustainable development", "seek to minimise negative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Before Ms Loughran comes in, I have a question, which Ms Loughran may also respond to. From what the witnesses are saying in general, am I correct that some of the difficulties of the Bill are that it is not clear and while it lists a lot of different things, it is not clear that they must be done; that the Bill should be framed in a clear way that creating marine protected areas is about...