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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: I am working with the members through all this process and I have accepted amendments. I am being very clear on that. We want to make this the best legislation. I hope the Opposition will acknowledge that as well as we go through this process because this is a significant departure from how we do business currently.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: These interrelated amendments provide for a new section 63(1)(a)(iii), which enables MARA to render assistance to other bodies in the performance of their functions. The section provides for co-operation agreements with other State bodies to co-ordinate and collaborate on related marine functions. The text, as initiated, inadvertently only provided for one-way rendering assistance to MARA....
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: I thank members for their questions. The agreements have a duty to try to improve the performance of MARA, realising its ambitions and goals. Section 41(h) on page 45 is detailed in its capturing of what we want agreements to do and to encourage co-operation with other regulators. We are talking about regulators such as-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: Section 41(h) on page 45 of the Bill.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: One could conceive agreements with actors such as the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, the Commissioners of Irish Lights and local authorities. With regard to the queries about section 63(5) on page 59: A co-operation agreement, or any variation made to it, shall be in writing and, as soon as is practicable after the agreement or variation has been made and given to the Minister. It...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 140: In page 58, to delete line 39 and substitute “maritime area;”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 141: In page 59, to delete line 3 and substitute “functions;”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 142: In page 59, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “(iii) the MARA rendering assistance to the body in the body’s performance of its functions where such assistance is not inconsistent with the MARA’s functions,”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 143: In page 59, line 15, to delete “shall include provisions—” and substitute “may include any or all of the following provisions:”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 144: In page 59, line 18, to delete “functions,” and substitute “functions;”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 145: In page 59, line 21, to delete “matter, and” and substitute “matter;”.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: I am advised it is a matter for MARA to adjudicate on the methodology to formulate its corporate strategy. In section 64, at the bottom of page 60, "MARA shall submit copies of the statement to the Minister...to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas", subsequent to that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: We are happy enough, in principle, with the idea of Deputy Boyd Barrett's suggestion. Our view is the chief executive would be doing that in the course of his tenure in terms of publishing strategy. We could potentially have a look at it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 146: In page 61, line 28, to delete “no later” and substitute “not later”. It is a small technical amendment to improve the syntax of the sentence from "no later" to "not later". It does not change the section in any substantive way.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: That is the lobbying Act, as I referenced in previous debates. Our view is that would capture it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: I will give a little background information before I speak to the amendment. The MAC concept is new and it would be helpful from the outset to detail what a MAC is and what it is not. The MAC fulfils specific functions within the overall consenting sequence. A MAC is a property right to occupy a part of the maritime area conditional on securing other necessary approvals, it ensures due...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: Everything in Schedule 4 essentially requires a MAC, that is everything that is not in Schedule 3 or Schedule 4.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Peter Burke: I definitely would not do that.