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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Data Protection (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: 735. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a data breach regarding customer information at the National Driving Licence Service; the measures he is taking to preserve privacy online and protection of citizens' data in the wake of this significant breach of Internet privacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49329/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: I welcome Mr. Peter Coyle, chairman of the Marine Renewables Industry Association, MRIA; Mr. Brendan Barry, emerging technologies manager of the ESB; Mr. Harvey Applebe, ocean energy manager, UK and Ireland, Vattenfall; Mr. Neil Davidson, public affairs manager, Aquamarine Power; and Dr. Anne Marie O'Hagan, technical adviser to the MRIA. I thank the witnesses for their attendance here today....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: I thank Mr. Coyle. I now call on Senator Keane to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: We will have to conclude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: Thank you for your interaction with the committee. I apologise for our delaying proceedings. Your interaction has been very informative and helpful to the committee. We will suspend the sitting to allow the next witnesses take their seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: We will continue our discussion on the outline heads of the maritime area and foreshore (amendment) Bill 2013. I welcome Mr. Tony Smyth and Mr. Liam Basquille from the Office of Public Works and thank them for their attendance. I wish to advise them of a procedural notice with regard to giving evidence. I draw the witnesses' attention to the fact that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: I call Deputy Corcoran Kennedy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: I call Deputy Kitt, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, to give him his full title.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: I am from a coastal area like other colleagues. I know the OPW has no direct involvement in planning applications. In respect of the foreshore, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has a role, the OPW has a role, albeit a peripheral one - no pun intended - the local authorities have a substantial role and An Bord Pleanála now has the supreme role in terms of critical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: I thank Mr. Smyth and Mr. Basquille for their attendance here and interaction with us. We will now suspend to allow our next set of witnesses to take their seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: We will continue our discussion of the outline heads of the Bill. I welcome Ms Karin Dubsky and Mr. John Wilde Crosbie who are here on behalf of Coastwatch Europe. I advise the witnesses that, by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to this committee. If they are directed by the committee to cease...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: How many?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: We will ask him to elaborate at this juncture.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: Ms Dubsky referred earlier to Castlemaine and Cromane pier. She mentioned 40 licences but were they for mussel farming?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: Was there an issue about prohibiting mussel farming in Cromane a number of years ago? To the best of my recollection that restriction was subsequently lifted, was it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: That would obviously have implications for growing, harvesting and future production.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: Would there have been a fairly strong economic argument by local fishermen who were dependent on mussel farming at Cromane pier, to get back to the previous level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: I understand. Basically, major players were taking the majority of a limited stock - for want of a better term - and leaving very little for smaller operators in the area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: Yes, when they should not have been doing it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2013)

Michael McCarthy: I thank Ms Dubsky and Mr. Wilde Crosbie for their interaction with the committee and their particular insight. In essence the point they made was the obsession we have with land, not the obsession with the practice of local authorities' planning and land. I think of my local authority in terms of our land use and transportation studies. Some years ago Cork County Council had a very good...