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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. 96: In page 30, to delete line 37. I am confused by section 19(1) on page 30. It states, "This section shall not apply to a MSP to which Chapter 4applies." Chapter 4 relates to "Laying of certain DMAPs before CPAs", not marine spatial plans, MSPs. Maybe I read it wrongly. It seems to me that it is an error in the Bill. If not, I am happy to withdraw the...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The final version was not.

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 looking to fight that again. It is slightly broader with this legislation.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not want my point to get lost. Those decisions have been taken. I am not looking to reopen them. I am saying that where the level of Oireachtas committee engagement is set out in legislation or by way of regulation, that would ensure that it happens. Where it is not set out, it is at the discretion of a committee, the Government or the composition of forces in the Oireachtas....

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We pay attention to these matters.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Just to be clear, did the Minister of State initially say there was an error that needs to be corrected?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I am happy to withdraw.

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. 97: In page 31, to delete lines 1 to 12 and substitute the following: “(2) Where the competent authority (M) proposes to make a MSP, he or she shall— (a) cause a copy of the proposed MSP prepared under this section, to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas, together with any environmental assessment reports prepared thereon pursuant to...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Does the Minister of State have folders-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State's amendments are quite helpful but given these very long amendments and the consequential amendments to different sections of the Bill, it would be helpful if we could introduce a little bit of plain English to the responses. That is not in any way criticising the Minister of State for reading the technical import of the amendments into the record because that has to be...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it by the Oireachtas or by the Minister?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for the clarifications. I have read the section the Minister of State referred us to, but I am still not clear about the relationship between DMAPs and MSPs. My understanding of the text the Minister of State referred us to is that DMAPs are presented as regional or sub-regional action-type plans whether for single use or varied use. The Minister of State can...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: They become part of it.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: In the review of the national marine planning framework, which covers the entire marine, you could have the development of an MSP that only relates to a part of the marine or you could have a series of consecutive MSPs that are contiguous. I presume the plan is to, over time, fill out all of the detail that is not yet there in the national marine planning framework with multiple MSPs. The...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: That is very useful but it does not answer my specific question. On enactment, would it be possible, before MARA is set up and the formal process of maritime consent is initiated, that the Minister may decide to designate another Minister in another Department with responsibility, primarily, for offshore wind? That Department would, therefore, have a set of expertise in that area, with...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will not make a comment. I just have questions. I ask the Minister of State to return to my first question on the relationship between an MSP and a DMAP. I am not clear about that because it is not explained on page 197 of the NMPF. With respect to section 23, the instigation of a DMAP, or the appointment of a public body for the purposes of drafting it, would constitute, essentially,...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: In the context of the use of the word "MSP", does the Minister of State mean the NMPF?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Could there be more than one body?