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

Eoin Ó Broin: In our last meeting with the Department, we asked for them to verbalise the enforcement agencies. I was more confused after they were verbalised than before because there was really a large number of them. That was before we got into the designation of the management authorities. That is one area of concern. I know it is not the professor's area of expertise but if the committee could be...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The answer we got from the officials is while they might be existing bodies, these might be new functions to existing bodies. All of the existing bodies that already had a licensing and enforcement responsibility would continue to have that as well. I know it is a very naive question but we asked who someone should call if they saw something on the seashore that was not compliant with a...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: What are Professor Crowe's thoughts on head 14(5) and that trade-off? The legislation cannot be overly prescriptive for all of the reasons he outlined. However, the legislation should at least try to set out some framework within which those types of decisions could be made because they could be very big decisions. They could have very significant consequences either for marine...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me push it one step further. That transparent scientific exercise then identifies an area that clearly requires a high level of conservation activity, yet somebody somewhere may then say that is all very well, but there are imperative reasons of overriding public interest that require us to disregard that. That is the bit that, legislatively, is going to be quite tricky, especially in...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Let me press Professor Crowe. I am trying to keep within the science. If, for example, a particular part of our marine environment is damaged to such an extent that a species goes extinct or we lose some key feature, that is not an isolated thing in and of itself, and that can then have a knock-on effect and a further knock-on effect. From a scientific point of view, when we talk about...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Professor Crowe for that.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one observation from an exchange we had with the Department last week. If one takes terrestrial planning, and I know it is not the same, we zone certain geographical areas where certain types of activity are permissible. Even where these is one planning enforcement body, which is our local authority, and even when everybody knows there is a single form to fill in to make a formal...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: School Staff (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 348. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the case of a preschool (details supplied) whose staff have been advised that they will have no access to their current accommodation from September 2023; and if there is any support or assistance available from her Department to ensure that the school can remain open. [5304/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 383. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of prosecutions brought under section 14 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018, for each year since its enactment. [5311/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 385. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) is under a standalone review. [5318/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 420. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff that have been working in occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and psychology year on year since 2016 in two teams; and the number of clients that have been seen by each separate discipline in the same time period, including a breakdown (details supplied). [5517/23]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank everyone for their presentations. There are seven areas of the general scheme on which I am interested in getting the responses of both the IEN and Wind Energy Ireland. They are not going to get to respond to all seven in the seven minutes I have, so maybe the delegates would take note of them and correspond with the committee on them. They would be of interest to all members. I...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure. There is a six-week requirement in head 7(4), pertaining to response times to the proposed ministerial designations.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: How many?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a few questions and I might take a third bite if the Chair does not mind.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for having to step out; I was launching some legislation. Whatever I might have missed, I will catch in the transcript. I have some follow-up questions for Ms Uí Bhroin and her colleagues, and then some questions for Mr. Goodwin. On head 14(2), we had a significant exchange with departmental officials on the legacy projects or the first series of offshore wind...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It was helpful.