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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: To be fair, I would not like the Deputy to accuse me of that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I never shook my head once, to be fair. Be reasonable here.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: On the first question relating to survey activities, they are subject to licensing under Part 5. They will have their own environmental assessments attached to them. Obviously, that is separate. As I already explained, a maritime area consent does not permit such activities. Depending on the scale of the project the timeframe can be set between three and five years. It will be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: In the first instance, I am advised that the MAC will die if it is not acted upon within a certain timeframe, and there will be conditions attached. Essentially, one will not have zombie developers. Perhaps Deputy Ó Broin will remind me of his first question.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Yes, the legacy issues. I am advised that, essentially, they will remain under the Foreshore Act and will have the conditions that were originally attached to that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: The foreshore licence will still set out the terms.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: One must apply to the Minister under the Foreshore Act, until the new licensing regime comes in.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Absolutely, yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: That is what I was clarifying, including the survey works and all those activities.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I would not use the word "exclusivity". It gives a right to apply for the planning.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: I do not think you would, in reason.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Under the development management process, essentially, that would happen because it would not allow that to happen.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: That is correct.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Absolutely. They are not permitted to do it anyway. They cannot go near it anyway.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Exactly. Yes.

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. 148: In page 65, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “Application for declaration as to whether or not MAC is required, etc. 75.(1) A person may make an application in the specified form, accompanied by the prescribed fee, to the MARA for a declaration in writing by the MARA as to whether or not the occupation of the part of the maritime area the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: It could involve different types of activities or purposes and they could co-exist.

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. 149: In page 65, to delete line 40, and in page 66, to delete line 1 and substitute the following: “(a) applications under section 75, (b) MAC applications, or (c) applications under section 84.”.

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. 150: In page 66, line 6, after “the” where it fourthly occurs to insert the following: “occupation of the part of the maritime area the subject of the application for the purposes of the undertaking of the”. Amendments Nos. 150 and 155 are similar amendments that propose to ensure there is a consistency of language throughout the Bill....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Peter Burke: Could Deputy O'Callaghan please clarify the last question?