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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...

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 answer we got from the officials is while they might be existing bodies, these might be new functions to existing bodies. All of the existing bodies that already had a licensing and enforcement responsibility would continue to have that as well. I know it is a very naive question but we asked who someone should call if they saw something on the seashore that was not compliant with a...

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: What are Professor Crowe's thoughts on head 14(5) and that trade-off? The legislation cannot be overly prescriptive for all of the reasons he outlined. However, the legislation should at least try to set out some framework within which those types of decisions could be made because they could be very big decisions. They could have very significant consequences either for marine...

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: Let me push it one step further. That transparent scientific exercise then identifies an area that clearly requires a high level of conservation activity, yet somebody somewhere may then say that is all very well, but there are imperative reasons of overriding public interest that require us to disregard that. That is the bit that, legislatively, is going to be quite tricky, especially in...

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: Let me press Professor Crowe. I am trying to keep within the science. If, for example, a particular part of our marine environment is damaged to such an extent that a species goes extinct or we lose some key feature, that is not an isolated thing in and of itself, and that can then have a knock-on effect and a further knock-on effect. From a scientific point of view, when we talk about...

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 for that.

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 one observation from an exchange we had with the Department last week. If one takes terrestrial planning, and I know it is not the same, we zone certain geographical areas where certain types of activity are permissible. Even where these is one planning enforcement body, which is our local authority, and even when everybody knows there is a single form to fill in to make a formal...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is statistically not true. There are 90,000-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister is deflecting and distracting from his own failure.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Government is not meeting its targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Agreed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Planning is not the problem. Lack of Government delivery is the problem.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Land Development Agency cannot get these lands. It does not have the power to get these lands.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister for his reply. My understanding is that of the four local authorities which received the draft regulations at the end of last year, the one in Donegal is refusing to give the Minister’s Department a formal comment because it is not allowed to discuss the regulations with its elected members. I welcome the fact the Minister has asked the SCSI to update the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that for defective blocks?