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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 52: In page 24, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(5) The Minister shall always conduct a public consultation on the making of guidelines, or any amendment to, or revocation of guidelines under this section.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 53: In page 24, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(5) The Minister shall ensure any new guidelines, revocation or amendment of guidelines made under this section, shall first be subject to a screening determination for both Strategic Environmental Assessment and Appropriate Assessment, and such assessments shall be conducted where the screening...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The amendments do not just speak to the guidelines. They also talk about revocation or amendment too. Would that also be the case?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The amendments speak not only to guidelines, but if there are amendments to guidelines or directives, would they also be subject to SEA screening?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: If there are guidelines and it went through a screening process, that is fine.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps a school should take in cases in which no substitute teacher can be sourced in view of the shortage of substitute teachers for schools. [51887/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 49: In page 24, to delete lines 28 to 35. This follows on from what the Minister of State just said because we are finally getting some clarity on this. Amendment No. 49 deals with section 7(2) in which the two phrases, "having regard to the guidelines" and "shall consider", are used. I am hoping the Minister of State will tell us that this does not have the same...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: If, at a later stage, those guidelines are subject to further amendments, would those amendments be subject to screening?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am more than happy with that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It does.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The wording of the amendments is very similar to the wording of similar amendments to section 6, which are about Oireachtas participation. We will not repeat the whole debate we had previously. Some of us would like to hear, and something with which the Minister of State is familiar because he does it with us regularly in committee, when there are changes to certain aspects of planning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I could be very ungenerous and say there are times when the planning system grinds to a halt all by itself without any Oireachtas interference or scrutiny. That is an argument for another day. On the last question I asked, does the Minister of State not see any link between the role given to the Oireachtas committee on regulatory changes concerning terrestrial planning and the role under...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The reason for the repetition of the text in amendments Nos. 65 to 67, inclusive, is that they apply to public bodies. It is very important that where those guidelines relate to a public body, they are published on the public body's websites as well as the Department website. Individuals, organisations or communities may track the public body as opposed to the Department, and there is a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. The portal is welcome. I ask him to consider two things. Unfortunately, not all public bodies necessarily have the same practice as some Departments. Equally, not all Departments necessarily operate in the same way. Many of us have difficulty accessing guidance documents and circulars from particular Departments and we end up having to submit...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: We retain the right to return to some of these issues on Report Stage, depending on the Minister of State’s amendments in respect of the related issue.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 57: In page 25, line 6, to delete “section.” and substitute “section, where such additional publication will provide benefit and clarity for the public and/or promote environmental protection.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 58: In page 25, to delete lines 7 to 9 and substitute the following: “(8) The Minister shall, in preparing, amending or revoking guidelines under this section— (a) act consistently with— (i) Article 1 of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive establishing marine spatial planning to promote within the State, the sustainable growth of maritime...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Separate from the amendment, is the Minister of State actually suggesting that there could be a guideline that would not comply with these very clear legal obligations under EU law? Clearly, one guideline might not be relevant to all that is listed, but any guideline that is relevant to any of those directives surely has to comply with them. The Minister of State might have been a little...