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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My point is that these companies are doing work at the moment that is impacting on fishermen, for example. The fishermen have told me that it is impacting on them. It is in advance of a full-scale development consent. According to the fishermen, there is not sufficient assessment of what is the potential impact in the areas that are being surveyed of what they are doing now. I echo those...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The notification of MACs should be more than just publishing on a website for the reasons that we discussed earlier. I put more weight on a maritime area consent than the Government has done with its view that it is not consent and not actual development, which is subject to a different process. There is more involved in the things that can be done, under the provisions of a MAC, than is...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If it is proposed to put 2 m of slipway into Dún Laoghaire harbour then I think that the people of Dún Laoghaire are entitled to know.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have said that bigger plans should be advertised on the radio but I do not propose that for the addition of a 2 m slipway.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I will have to think about the best formula. Let us be honest, a notice published on a website would pass most Deputies by, never mind members of the public.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a big gap between doubling and a minor tweak. There is a big grey area in the middle. Again, I give the example of the fishermen in my area. They said as par of the survey for the proposed Dublin Array wind farm on their fishing grounds on the Kish and Codling Banks, the goalposts moved during their engagements with the companies as to the area from that they might be excluded...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As not being "trivial" within maritime area consent?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am thinking in the area of what we are talking about. There is stuff that these companies do in advance of putting in a formal planning application for development that impact on users and on marine life, in many cases. Is it trivial or not, if they decide to say that the area they were surveying was this or we were running tests-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are talking about the maritime area consent, which is different. There is a distinction in this system between a formal application for a development, and the consent a company gets for doing things that are related to its plan for a development, which are not a development but which are usages of the marine area.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Apologies.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed, but a MAC may involve excluding some existing users from an area for a period of time.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister of State clarify the point?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that a lot happened in the 15 minutes that I was gone. Pardon me for that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Section 92 refers to the rehabilitation of the area subject to the MAC. It refers to the requirement to rehabilitate an area, which could include "the decommissioning of infrastructure; the removal of infrastructure; the partial removal of infrastructure; the re-use of infrastructure for the same or another purpose; the burying or encasing of infrastructure; and the removal of any deposited...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is possible to have a MAC and do absolutely nothing.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To be clear, it is possible to have a MAC and to do absolutely nothing with it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As far as I am concerned, that is a problem. The Minister of State spelled out that certain things cannot be done under maritime area consent, but applicants for all the relevant projects, so-called, will now have to apply for maritime area consent. Is that correct? Will applicants now have to apply for maritime area consent?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, but the public will have no input on whether that is granted. They will have no avenue for making submissions on that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: During the planning process.