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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: How many?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a few questions and I might take a third bite if the Chair does not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for having to step out; I was launching some legislation. Whatever I might have missed, I will catch in the transcript. I have some follow-up questions for Ms Uí Bhroin and her colleagues, and then some questions for Mr. Goodwin. On head 14(2), we had a significant exchange with departmental officials on the legacy projects or the first series of offshore wind...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It was helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Could Ms Uí Bhroin deal with head 13 first, the climate stuff, because I do not want that to pass?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Loughran for that response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Before Mr. Fogarty does that, I just want to ask him to make a supplementary comment. If we look at terrestrial planning enforcement, we do know who to call. As many of the witnesses have long experience, knowing who to call in and of itself does not fix the problem. I could point to any number of long-standing, egregious planning breaches in my constituency, and I am sure Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: With the indulgence of the Chair, could Mr. Goodwin have a minute or two to respond to the questions asked because he did not get in on the first round? My problem is I ask too many questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I believe the argument is weakened when Mr. Goodwin makes the case for industry involvement in auction design, for example. There are plenty of experts in the field who would have a comparable, if not direct, involvement in those other jurisdictions. We have seen in other areas where proximity can create more problems than it resolves. If there was that co-creation element Professor Crowe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Nobody disputes that. Nobody on the committee disagrees with that. The specific challenge for Wind Energy Ireland is, however, that we have bitter experience of terrestrial planning, for example, strategic housing developments, which we were told would allow us to expedite planning decisions and deliver a greater number of much-needed homes. The concern many of us had at the time was not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have one final supplementary question on that. That is fine, except if this was the case we would not need marine protected areas because that could possibly look after itself. I am not convinced by that. Would Wind Energy Ireland and its members fully support one of the suggestions by Professor Tasman Crowe that there clearly needs to be a prioritisation of the speedy implementation of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I take that as read, but that is not the same as the level of protection to a specific marine protected area or the wider marine protected area networks, which the marine protected area is designed for. It is not the same process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Nobody is disputing that. We are all agreed that we want this as fast as possible but my question is about the prioritisation and the sharing of information. If industry was to say that in order to get the certainty, then industry would support appropriate prioritisation and would be willing to share information and data, particularly with an expert group, which might otherwise not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Ms Comiskey not believe that the earliest possible sharing of that data with independent scientific experts would help to de-risk the projects because it would help the sector to navigate its way through that information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I get the point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have a couple of very brief observations which the witnesses are free to comment on in their concluding remarks. We have had lots of conversations about data and taking a data-led approach. The big question, of course, is what we do when there is no data. Do we apply the precautionary principle or do we make sure the absence of data does not get in the way of activity X, Y or Z? That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Maybe that is the analogy but I just wanted to make the observation that it is quite unusual in comparison to terrestrial planning. My worry is that there are some groups involved in one bit of it and other groups involved in another bit, so there are two processes, two timelines and two sets of decisions. I am not in favour of fast-tracking anything - I want to get it right and do it...