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

Cian O'Callaghan: Can the Minister of State repeat that reference?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I will add to that. Corporate strategies are quite significant. Bodies follow their corporate strategies and what is in them can have considerable significance. I ask the Minister of State to address that point in terms of the question posed.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I will come at this issue from a slightly different angle. The thinking on MAC is that it is not an environmental decision, so it does not need to go through the processes an environmental decision would. Presumably, a MAC would allow somebody who is looking to develop in the maritime area to carry out surveying work in order to get an application together looking for a licence. If...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The first question was one I had asked also.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister of State is saying that obtaining a MAC does not give anyone the ability to carry out any works that could have any impact in an area but it does give them an exclusivity in terms of the area for the ability to apply for those licences and permissions. Is this it in effect and nothing more than that? It could not have any environmental impact until an application for a licence...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Is the Minister of State saying that the MAC does not give anyone the right to carry out any activity whatsoever, and that they are all subject to subsequent processes, be it licensing or planning permissions?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the MAC give someone exclusivity to that piece?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: You could have five different companies with a MAC for the exact same plot of marine land or overlapping-----

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

Cian O'Callaghan: In reason you would not, but you could.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: On the key point of environmental impacts, the Minister of State has said the MAC cannot have any environmental impacts because anything that has an environmental impact is subject to a subsequent process.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Therefore, people would be in breach of the legislation if anything they did, simply because they had obtained a MAC, were to have any environmental impact.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: Apart from apply to do things.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: It is very much the point that often we see in terrestrial planning that communities become aware of planning issues through the different stages of the process. When there is an initial application to a council, they become aware of it and they may become aware of the zoning before that. They may well be involved in the public consultation processes at the level of An Bord Pleanála....

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

Cian O'Callaghan: In terms of granting a MAC and the conditions that go with it, does the Bill allow for conditions to be attached around rehabilitation in terms of any works that could take place or any damage that has been done to the marine environment? If one is seeking a MAC in an area where damage has already been done to the marine environment, would there be a condition on the MAC that in order to...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 156: In page 66, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: "(2) The MARA shall also provide for public consultation and consultation with prescribed bodies on the granting of a MAC and shall give due consideration to the consultation responses in determining a MAC application. (3) The Minister shall by regulations specify— (a) the nature of and how...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: This section sets out the definition of "rehabilitate" with regard to maritime areas. It is relevant to section 2(3) of the Bill, with regard to the interpretation of the Act, which states on page 20: A reference in this Act to a MAC includes— (a) the maritime usage the subject of the MAC, (b) the conditions attached, or deemed to be attached, to the MAC by virtue of section 79,...

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

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask the Minister of State to clarify it further. It does not relate to rehabilitation works.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: To clarify, and to close off this matter, being granted a MAC does not entitle the holder to do any of the things referred to by Deputy Boyd Barrett. Section 92, however, then talks about the rehabilitation processes that the MAC holder may have to undertake on the basis of any commissions or licences.