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

Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 128: In page 45, line 30, to delete “UNCLOS and the Act of 2006” and substitute “the Convention and the Act of 2021”.

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

Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 129: In page 46, to delete lines 12 to 15 and substitute the following: “(iv) a representative of the County and City Management Association; (v) up to six other persons (if any).”. This amendment rebalances the proposed composition of the MARA board to ensure a broader scope of representation. It demonstrates the Government’s willingness...

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

Peter Burke: MAC holders will not be allowed to serve on the board itself due to potential conflicts of interest, with the exception of a representative of the County and City Management Association, CCMA, who may be from a local authority holding such an approval. As serving on a committee is at one remove from the functions of the board, and the outputs are subject to board approval, such a conflict...

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

Peter Burke: The cathaoirleach has raised an important point. Amendment No. 130 proposes to require that six particular persons representing very specific, but important, interests in the maritime area be appointed to the board of the MARA. On Second Stage, we were accused of creating a board that is not balanced. We are seeking to address this in amendment No. 129. In my view, this proposal would...

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

Peter Burke: The point made by Deputy Boyd Barrett on NPHET is valuable but he failed to say it is a committee. It has an advisory role, and the Government makes the decisions. It is the same with regard to the board structure. The board is not adjudicating on consents. The board is a corporate governance structure; it is an oversight mechanism. The chief executive and the chief executive's team have...

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

Peter Burke: The board is not making the final decision.

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

Peter Burke: The chief executive and his or her team. We should think of it in terms of a local authority and the development management process. The county manager and planners adjudicate on the applications but the board that holds them to account does not. The board would be the equivalent of the members of a local authority. There has to be expertise in respect of adjudicating on the applications....

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

Peter Burke: Absolutely.

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

Peter Burke: I think our excellent amendment No. 129, to use Deputy Boyd Barrett's terminology, does exactly what the Members want and what we should do to broaden the scope and seek the expertise that is required on the board. Three out of ten are from a Civil Service background. We have taken on board Members' views on that from the Second Stage debate. That is fair and reasonable. The board, as...

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

Peter Burke: Just being a member of a specific organisation does not mean that a person has the right skill set to do the job. We have to be careful here if someone is suggesting that being a member of a certain entity automatically gives that person the skill set to execute the job as the director of the board.

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

Peter Burke: It could be someone from the Marine Institute. The Deputy wants me to guarantee that someone with the best expertise from the Marine Institute would be barred from being a member of the board of MARA.

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

Peter Burke: That person would be a civil servant.

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

Peter Burke: I genuinely hear the Deputy. I am not arguing. I think that our amendment No. 129 reflects that. There is a misunderstanding that if it is prescribed in legislation that a person must be a member of an organisation or body, that will guarantee the correct expertise and skill set. I do not think that is the case. There could be a valuable contribution from somebody from the Marine...

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

Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 132: In page 46, to delete lines 23 to 37, and in page 47, to delete lines 1 to 8 and substitute the following: “(b) The Minister shall— (i)for the purposes of appointing a member who falls within subsection (1)(b) (i), (ii) or (iii), so appoint a nominee put forward by the Minister of the Government for the Department concerned where the Minister...

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

Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 133: In page 48, lines 9 and 10, to delete all words from and including “(1) The” in line 9 down to and including line 10. I am withdrawing this amendment in the context of the corporate governance review that we have undertaken on foot of the contributions of members during the debate on Second Stage.

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

Peter Burke: I move amendment No. 134: In page 48, lines 25 and 26, to delete “the day-to-day running of the MARA and”. This amendment more precisely defines the role of the board in respect of governance and oversight and the delegation of its functions. The text as initiated might have been misconstrued so as to mean that the MARA governance board is a case level decision-making...

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

Peter Burke: I might accept that the local authority structure is not the best example, but it shows that those with the requisite technical expertise are adjudicating on the development management process. I refer to those who are trained to do so. I am not aware that members of local authorities make observations on routine planning applications that go before the local authorities.

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

Peter Burke: I was not aware of that provision because I recently had a letter from a councillor seeking that ability.

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

Peter Burke: The Minister is statutorily barred from having any say in respect of adjudicating on applications that will be dealt with through this new regime. Taking the board of the EPA as an example, where the CEO and the team grant licences, board oversight is very different in respect of getting to the stage of adjudication where the expertise is required to make determinations and to make those...

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

Peter Burke: We are not seeking to put them back in here.