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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm whether a single point of approval for mixed tenure social and affordable housing schemes has been put in place on foot of his Department's review published in January 2022; if so, the name and grade of the person leading this single point of approval; and the number of projects currently accessing this single...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Uniforms (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options, if any, open to parents who have been given no option but to purchase crested school jumpers from one supplier as part of their child’s uniform, but who cannot afford to do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4341/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 521. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of commercial buildings currently being used by international accommodation services to provide temporary accommodation to international protection applicants and Ukrainians with temporary protection, broken down by local authority area; the number of persons residing in these buildings in each...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 530. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons currently being accommodated via IPAS in locations (details supplied); and the status type, the number of persons with leave to remain, with temporary protection and applying for international protection, by household type, that is, single, couple, household with children, in each...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is good to see Professor Crowe again. I thank him for his presentation. My series of questions follows on from Senator Fitzpatrick’s. The general scheme, while welcome, is general so there is a good deal of detail that is not in it. We are hoping, through the various hearings, to start to fill out what that detail might look like so that it feeds its way not only into the Bill...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will Professor Crowe describe, in summary form and based on some of those examples of international best practice, the big difference between co-creation and public consultation, as we understand it, where something is published and responded to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The architecture is complex between management authorities, existing licensing bodies and enforcement, whether conducted by the Naval Service or the Marine Institute. That has become complicated. Have other jurisdictions managed to streamline or simplify that? Have they managed to get co-operation between existing agencies working well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the indulgence of the Chair, I will ask a final question about best practice in respect of monitoring and how to ensure restoration is an integral part of the system where it is required.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Professor Crowe very much. It has been a really helpful session. I have a few follow-up questions. Head 6(4) states "the Minister, shall to the extent possible and appropriate aim to designate up to 10% of the maritime area as Marine Protected Areas as soon as practicable after commencement of this Act and up to 30% of the maritime area as Marine Protected Areas by 2030". When...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is always the small phrases in the legislation that are important. In Professor Crowe's responses to Deputy Cian O'Callaghan, the issue arose about how explicit our domestic legislation needs to be versus either current or emerging legal requirements under EU law or international obligations. Given that we spent a fair amount of time in this committee dealing with issues of EU...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is the bane of our lives in this committee but that is another day's craic. To go back to the timelines, Professor Crowe's description of them is helpful in terms of the recommendations for the designations and the evidence base and science within a year. Realistically speaking, we are looking at two to three years plus, in terms of the designation, especially if some prove...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps the language is not to fast-track but to prioritise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The process must be done first. That relates to another comment Professor Crowe made earlier, which I thought was interesting, about some of the offshore activity, because it is much further away and there is a smaller number of actors. In one sense, that might make the process a little bit easier because there will be fewer people at the table. However, that also means the potential for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have reached my final question. A lot of this is going to come down to resourcing. Professor Crowe made very clear that the governance aspect of it is not his area of expertise but a lot of the science is. Data are being collected by various academic institutions, the Marine Institute etc. From what he knows is out there, even in the areas in which he is not an expert, but based on his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: And not just one-off data but recurring data because of the monitoring.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: For those of us who would not know the field of actors in terms of the gathering of that data and distilling it, are we talking about the Marine Institute or a number of universities? Is there a network already in place of all of the different locations for that scientific expertise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a short supplementary question on that. We talk about marine life not operating within state boundaries. Is that just within the State or is it all-Ireland? Is there a particular kind of relationship with counterparts in the North given their immediate proximity to us, let alone the ones outside of our territorial waters and seas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that happening already?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have two questions to ask in that case. Until we see the final text of the legislation this is just a general summary but the key line was in head 14(5)(a) and states, "a public authority may grant an application for an authorised activity". That's obviously something which is licensed prior to the introduction of the marine protected area, which does not comply with the conservation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: In our last meeting with the Department, we asked for them to verbalise the enforcement agencies. I was more confused after they were verbalised than before because there was really a large number of them. That was before we got into the designation of the management authorities. That is one area of concern. I know it is not the professor's area of expertise but if the committee could be...