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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: This is a small point but to be clear, the amendments do not seek to limit other forms of publication and do not seek to restrict publication to this medium. Putting this type of standard practice and good practice into the legislation will not have a limiting effect and it will not prohibit other forms of communication. It would be an additional safeguard in the process.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: As Deputy Ó Broin said, these are similar to the previous amendments but relate to the directives and guidelines. These are key aspects and these amendments shall be incorporated into the legislation. It is important to explicitly write in that when directives and guidelines are being drawn up, they specify that the Minister must act in accordance with the birds directive, the habitats...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Will the Minister of State expand on why it would not be possible to comply with the requirements set out under our amendments? These amendments are much stronger than section 31 of the Bill and they are more detailed. As we discussed earlier in the week, they also have that hierarchy, which is important, and list the maritime spatial planning directive and our amendments to the marine...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister of State clearly has a different view on this, but to me, these directives are highly relevant to marine spatial planning. The maritime spatial planning directive, for example, is not listed in section 31. It is not there. I believe that this is highly relevant to the Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021. I am quite concerned that the Minister of State is of the view that these...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I do not understand why ensuring the Minister would act consistently with the methodologies and requirements of the maritime spatial planning directive, as proposed in our amendment No. 69, is incoherent. That is not in section 31, and it would act in compliance with the marine strategy framework directive. These are not in section 31. They are not listed in that section. How would it be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is fine to say it is all over the Bill but what I want to understand relates to the Minister. Amendment No. 69 is on policy directives. Where is it in the Bill in relation to policy directives? Section 31 certainly does not cover policy directives. The Minister of State might point to where in the Bill that is covered.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: While I do not necessarily agree I accept that is the Minister of State's but-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: On the policy directives the Minister can give under this Bill, where is in the legislation does it specify, specifically in respect of the directives, that they have to comply with the maritime spatial planning directive and the marine strategy framework, for example? That is the core of my question.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I appreciate they rest with the Minister.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: Absolutely. I appreciate that. However, where in the Bill is it explicit that is the case? That is the point I have been making and that is the point I am asking about. It is not in section 31. The Minister of State says it is in many other parts of the Bill, but where?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: These are not just various directives; they are the maritime spatial planning directives. I do not accept in listing them there that they are contradictory. I see the birds directive and habitats directive as complementary. The amendment and the case we have made for it stands well. I have not heard-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is in Schedule 1 but where does it specifically say in the Bill that, in terms of directives, this needs to apply? That is the issue. As far as I can tell it does not, despite what we have heard.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: My position on this is that the Bill should be explicit in terms of the Minister and compliance with the maritime spatial planning directive and the marine strategy directive. This matter is not covered in section 31. I appreciate that the Government must comply with all EU directives, but that does not always happen in full. Indeed, fines have been paid over non-compliance. The Bill is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: As Deputy Ó Broin indicated, this amendment seeks to ensure that any new policy directives would be limited by the requirement to be in accordance with the policies in the MPPS. If the Minister of State is not happy with the inclusion of this provision in the Bill, I would like to know why and in what circumstances he foresees that there might be new policy directives that would not be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 73: In page 27, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following: " "maritime spatial planning" means— (a) a process by which the relevant Member State’s authorities analyse and organise human activities in marine areas to achieve ecological, economic and social objectives, as defined in Article 3(2) of the MSP Directive, and in so doing the competent...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I do not think that any assumptions are being made in the amendments regarding current standard practice. The fact that it is standard practice and good practice is a reason for putting this aspect into the legislation. I take the point, though, that none of us knows what the best place for information will be in 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 or 70 years' time. If we look through legislation,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I raise the issue of safeguarding procedures for vulnerable adults. Recently, An Garda Síochána had detailed knowledge of credible allegations of sexual assault against vulnerable people experiencing homelessness. I have raised that with the Taoiseach before. The Garda did not pass this information on in a timely manner to the organisation where the alleged perpetrator worked....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination last met. [48202/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: I raise the issue of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, and the sale of homes to investment funds. Building defects do not explain why the homes in question - 26 apartments - were left empty for almost a decade. They do not explain the length of time involved. It should not take so long. The Government is not meeting its target for the delivery of cost-rental and affordable...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Oct 2021)

Cian O'Callaghan: What about cost-rental and affordable homes?