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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Chairman is entitled to his view but I disagree with it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment 115: In page 40, lines 16 to 25, to delete all words from and including “(1) For” in line 16 down to and including line 25 and substitute the following: “(1) For the avoidance of doubt, the relevant competent authority shall, in the preparation of anything to which this subsection applies, ensure that- (a) the thing is both consistent and compatible...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 116: In page 40, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(a) a maritime planning policy statement;”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: We will not necessarily be opposing this, but I want to find out more about it. The database is only for authorisations. Does that not mean that we are missing something here in terms of forward planning? Should it not be more consistent with the standards for data and information that are set out in Article 10, for example, of the maritime spatial directive, so that the database should be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am trying to tease out concerns about the pre-planning or forward-planning stage. Will the forward planning part be captured by this? If it is captured by this, will it be published only at the point of an authorisation at the end of the process? Is it transparent and publicly accessible in the database only at the very end? Will people be able to go onto the database to see, for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am not raising issues around lobbying. I am asking whether the database will capture surveys or monitoring of conditions-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: My point is on where there is not an authorisation. If surveys are done that do not lead to authorisation will they be captured in the database? If they are not, it is a waste of knowledge that could be useful.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: On amendment No. 122, what sort of functions does the Minister of State envisage being delegated from the Minister to MARA? Will he give some clarification on the thinking there and how wide-ranging that could be?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, but it relates to the delegation of powers to MARA.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: If the Minister of State could clarify the matter I raised, it would be helpful. On amendment No. 123, I have huge concerns. The sale of marine areas which are State-owned could be done by MARA as opposed to the Minister. Will the Minister of State clarify what areas of the marine and seabed we are talking about? Would a sale involve the land under the seabed? Does it include the area...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: We need clarification, as Deputy Boyd Barrett said, on exactly what is meant by "maritime area that is State-owned"? Is that the entire maritime area? It seems to me, reading this amendment, that it is fairly black and white that it allows the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, with the consent of the Minister, to delegate to MARA the function of selling or otherwise disposing of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: From reading Article 9 and section 18, I do not see how the specifics of Article 9 are transposed. Section 18 all rests on the public participation statement, whereas Article 9 is specific on what needs to be done. We do not know what will be in this public participation statement. There is a list of things the Minister may specify as regards requirements. That is as far as section 18...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 84: In page 28, line 32, after “thereof” to insert “in accordance with subsection (3)”. I will speak to this amendment and to amendment No. 85, just to move things along. They are not grouped, but this is a technical amendment relating to amendment No. 85.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 85 sets out a list of factors that should guide the review of the national marine planning framework and who should be consulted during that process. The Bill does not require the Minister to consult as part of that process. This amendment seeks to create a situation whereby we will not have the Department checking its own work in this regard, and that is why we must have a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 85: In page 28, after line 39, to insert the following: “(3) The Minister, in conducting a review of the NMPF or an MSP, shall address the following requirements and considerations in respect of the NMPF for the existing NMPF and for a MSP in the case of a review of a MSP— (a) consult with— (i) the Minister with responsibility for Natural...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 86: In page 29, line 2, after “thereof” to insert “in accordance with subsection (3)”. This amendment was not grouped with amendment No. 85, but I probably should have spoken on it then because it provides for the factors set out in that amendment to also be considered in the context of reviews of the maritime spatial plans.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 87: In page 29, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “18. (1) The arrangements for public participation on the review, preparation and amendment of a new MSP developed under this Act, and a review and amendment or replacement or revocation of the NMPF in place on enactment, and other relevant documents, shall be consistent with the requirements of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 89: In page 29, to delete lines 18 and 19.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will the DMAPs provide for greater granularity and specification of an MSP? I ask the Minister of State to explain how the two interact. If the DMAPs are providing for further granularity and specification for an MSP, they will need to be developed consistently with the methodology requirements of the marine spatial planning directive and be properly approved by the Oireachtas. Will this...