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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 81: In page 28, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: "(b) take account of the assessment reports for the state provided in accordance with the following: (i) Article 17 of the Maritime Strategy Framework Directive and consultation responses thereon; (ii) Article 16 and 17 of the Habitats Directive and consultation responses thereon; (iii) Article 11...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I also apologise for being late. It is one of those days when we are all running around trying to catch up with ourselves. I am sure if I had more time to catch a breath, I could have found a pithy remark at the start about co-existence between ourselves and the Minister of State but it is good to see he is accepting at least one of the amendments. It is not a small change of language but...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: That will be the case for any consent application once MARA is established. Deputy Boyd Barrett is referring to legacy projects. People are looking for some reassurance that the consent process by which the Minister is going to provide consent for those legacy projects will have the same level of scrutiny and independence because that process is not outlined in the same way. That is the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I fully support the amendment. If the Minister of State thought, for example, two years was better than one year and wanted to make the case, I am sure we would be open to being reasonable about that, subject to whether it fits the Minister of State's definition of reasonable or not. Given that we have already passed the national marine planning framework, NMPF, some time ago, six years...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is good we are all good-humoured in this committee. I can picture the Minister of State's overworked and underpaid officials late last night writing the briefing notes and having a little smile as they added that particular line. We appreciate the humour, and I mean that genuinely. I accept one year is too short but I also accept six years is too long. Would the Minister of State...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perfect. Is that something separate to the review of the national marine planning framework?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: As with the two previous amendments, these next two amendments, Nos. 86 and 87, are technically linked. They were originally one amendment and were separated by the Bills Office, but the Minister of State and his advisers know that. Again, one thing that might help to clarify some of the confusion some of us are experiencing would be if the Minister of State in his response, and in as...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Excellent.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was hoping there might be two or three more sentences.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not trying to put words in the Minister of State's mouth, but we are getting somewhere. That means, for example, that when a review of the national marine planning framework is triggered, that could be the development of one or more marine spatial plans which as they are developed, with their public participation statements informing the public participation, then amend the national...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Even if it is a single MSP.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: That is quite important.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 90: In page 29, line 18, to delete “reasonable steps” and substitute “legally required actions”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 91: In page 29, line 21, to delete “or expedient”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 92: In page 29, to delete lines 24 to 38 and substitute the following: “(4) The Minister may by regulations specify requirements relating to any of the following: (a) appropriate time periods for public consultation, where— (i) such time periods when calculated shall not include excluded time periods, and (ii) shall be generously specified to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 93: In page 30, to delete lines 1 to 25 and substitute the following: “(5) Where the Minister makes regulations under subsection (4), in addition to having regard to the other provisions of this Act, he or she shall also— (a) act consistently with: (i) the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 94: In page 30, line 2, to delete “have regard to” and substitute “shall comply with”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 95: In page 30, to delete lines 30 to 35 and substitute the following: “(6) In this section, “relevant document” means— (a) a review of the NMPF in place at the time of enactment, (b) an amendment or revocation of the NMPF in place at the time of enactment, (c) a draft of a MSP that falls within section 16(3)(a), (b) or (c), (d) a...