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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will check the transcript. Perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The requirement is not consultation but meaningful consultation, which is a different kettle of fish. Many of us are in large organisations that have the capacity to have researchers help us to be informed when we come into forums such as this. Large industry bodies, whether they are fisheries industries or offshore wind, have those capacities as does large environmental NGOs. Very often...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Excellent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was on monitoring post-designation. I am asking about monitoring of the network and the individual marine protected areas. Who is doing it and how is it being done? What level of resourcing is there for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, what is being monitored? Is it the network? Is it individual marine protected areas or portions of them? How is the monitoring envisaged?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one finally supplementary question on that. If I remember correctly, when we were dealing with the national marine planning framework, one of the debates we had was on whether the overall policy approach of the framework and all of the bits that fit into it, including marine protected areas, was adopting a full ecosystem and whole site approach rather than just identifying individual...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: May I qualify the Chair's question in a way that would be really helpful for us and for others? This obviously sits in a wider architecture. It would be really useful if Dr. O'Higgins could describe the bits of that architecture. We have management authorities, enforcement authorities, monitoring obligations, the Department, MARA, the board and the local authorities. It would be really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise. I meant a PhD in the history of what I am looking at, which is big and complicated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise, Chair, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: If I were standing on the coast near a marine protected area and I thought something was in breach of the designation, who would I call?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Who are they likely to be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the discretion of the Chair-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Let us learn some lessons from terrestrial planning. A local authority grants planning permission and there is an obligation on the person who has been granted that permission to build according to the plan. For example, if a local authority provides a licence for quarrying, there is an obligation on the person to quarry in accordance with the licence. The first issue is whether the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yesterday, another committee dealt with the issue of short-term letting. Some years ago, we dealt with new planning regulations on change of use. It was very straightforward and the rules are very clear. A short-term let for a specific period of time in a particular type of building requires a change of use planning application on certain occasions. The problem was that the enforcement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely, if Mr. Cronin has some thoughts on the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not even making the case for a single authority or agency because I understand it is not that straightforward. What I am making the case for, particularly at the early stages when there are multiple agencies or authorities, is having one place where anybody can go to be told what is appropriate. The Chair's point is a good one. There may be a single point of contact in a geographical...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the Cost of Construction Study, including its terms of reference, its scope, the person who is conducting the study and when it will be published. [3934/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the names of the current board members of An Bord Pleanála; and when he expects the full board to be in place. [3971/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm whether a single point of approval for mixed tenure social and affordable housing schemes has been put in place on foot of his Department's review published in January 2022; if so, the name and grade of the person leading this single point of approval; and the number of projects currently accessing this single...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Uniforms (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options, if any, open to parents who have been given no option but to purchase crested school jumpers from one supplier as part of their child’s uniform, but who cannot afford to do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4341/23]