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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 105 to 107, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy O’Callaghan. I suggest that we also address amendment No. 108 now because it is related to this grouping. That will mean that amendments Nos. 105 to 108, inclusive, will be in this grouping. Amendment No. 108 is on “coexistance” and “colocation”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Are the Members willing to withdraw their amendment No. 108 based on the commitment given by the Minister of State?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Is amendment No. 105 being pressed?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: On section 28(3)(a), does that subsection not describe adequately "the amendments which fall within the class [that] should be trivial, insignificant, minor or inconsequential"?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: This is in section 28. I will allow the Minister of State to respond to this point, please.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: I believe that adequately covers the type of amendments that we are talking about there. Deputy Boyd Barrett, do you wish to come back in on that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: We could get out the dictionary and look up the definitions of "trivial", "insignificant", "minor" and "inconsequential", but I think we have covered comprehensively what a significant matter is. I will put the question on that basis.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: The question is that the new section be inserted. Is that agreed?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Yes, we have discussed it with amendment No. 98.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 112 to 117, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: We will take amendments Nos. 112 to 117, inclusive, and then we will have discussed them under amendment No. 112.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Sure. The question is about amendment No. 112. Will the Minister of State clarify what section 31 is there for? Is that your question, Deputy O'Callaghan?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: The avoidance-of-doubt aspect of it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 15 relates to the insertion of the new section. Am I correct?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Section 31, as in the published Bill, will be replaced, in page 40, from lines 16 to 15-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: We will roll back the tape because I might not say it in exactly the same way. We have a number of amendments in this grouping, amendments Nos. 112 to 117, inclusive. Amendment No. 115 seeks to insert additional wording into section 31 as in the published Bill. This is in the Minister of State's amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Steven Matthews: Sorry, I am misreading this.