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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 154 has been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 164, 165 and 168 are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: I have a question on the amendment. We are trying to put together planning legislation to ensure that there is a proper and fit-for-purpose planning regime for the maritime area that covers all activities. If a MAC needs to be amended, must one go right back to the start of the whole process again and reapply? There is some ministerial discretion.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Does an amendment require going back to the start of the MAC process again?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Do you have to apply for a whole new MAC or just to amend a MAC?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 166 and 167 are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank the Deputy for his observation.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 169 and 170 are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 169: In page 71, to delete lines 8 and 9. The holder of a MAC must apply to MARA for approval to amend the MAC if he or she so wishes. Section 83(2) provides that "...the Minister may by regulations specify classes of amendments to a MAC that are, for the purposes of this section, non-material amendments." Then, section 83(3)(a) states: "that the amendments which...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: In that case, the Minister could specify those classes of amendments that are non-material.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: The regulations may specify amendments. However, the section 83(3)(a) states: "that the amendment which fall within in the class should be trivial, insignificant, minor or inconsequential." Is that unduly limiting? What amendments could be classified as not being that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: We are now talking about MACs. It relates to permission to occupy the area.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Can the regulations specify classes of amendments that are non-material amendments, which are "trivial, insignificant minor, or inconsequential"?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Given that undertaking, I will withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 172 to 174, inclusive, will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 175 and 177 are related and may be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: It is the rehabilitation of the consent that is to be included in the MAC and not the rehabilitation of anything done under MAC. That is my understanding. I will leave it to the Minister of State to respond.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: The Minister of State would probably give better clarification.