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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not convinced that the Minister of State is clear about the point I am trying to make. Perhaps that is because I did not make it clearly enough. A record is a physical document, so when I put in an FOI request, I ask for a copy of a letter sent from politician X to Minister Y. Information is a much wider category, in the sense that it does not have to be in a formal record or...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State's objection is dealt with in my amendment by the explicit reference to the directive. There is no point going around the houses on this but I will be pressing the amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to seek clarification on a technical matter. This section relates to the application of the legislation. Were there any discussions in the Department or are there any concerns about how this will impact or apply in areas where there are disputed territorial waters? Rockall is the one that has been in the news most, but I would like to know whether it also has any implications for...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is detailed in that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 25: In page 23, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “(c) the representations of fishing representative bodies and coastal community groups given to the Minister pursuant to subsection (5)(b);”. The Minister of State may be unable to accept this amendment for technical reasons but it is tabled for the purposes of raising the matter and...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State. I accept the premise of his critique of the amendment. In response, while he is right as a general rule, in many aspects of planning and, indeed, in some aspects of licensing, prescribed organisations are given the preferential treatment of being statutorily included in the process whereby they are notified of the opportunity to engage in a way that a general...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Again, I do not see where "four weeks" is written in this section. Will that be introduced by way of statutory instrument, or am I missing that it in the section? Could the Minister of State please let me know where it is? I would then like to follow up with a second comment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, it is states, "inviting members of the public [...] not later than four weeks.” Here is the difficulty. Four weeks is a short period of time. We are not dealing with a standard planning application. We are dealing with things that can often be complex, both from a technical and scientific point of view. Many of us would have met with, for example, the National Inshore...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: This is another opportunity for the Minister of State to clarify matters. I think he is saying that because this is just a technical drawing of boundaries to determine which local authority is responsible for each area, there will be a shorter consultation period. Has there been discussion or consideration of whether there could end up being disputes, not necessarily between local...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is it the Minister of State's intention to have prescribed bodies at any stage or will it be an open, public consultation?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will be happy to withdraw the amendment. I ask, however, that the Minister of State discuss with his officials whether there would be a benefit to tabling Government amendments at a later Stage to give the Minister the power to introduce, by way of regulation, appropriate prescribed bodies. It might be a positive that would assist the process.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Before I deal with the amendments, I think it would be really useful if before the Minister of State responds to our questions about the amendments, he gives the committee a plain English explanation of what the marine planning policy statement is, its function and role. I am particularly interested because we have a national marine planning framework and will have marine protected areas,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: At the risk of the Minister of State losing the will to live listening to me talking to my other amendments-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendments Nos. 42, 43 and 45 are really about significantly strengthening the role of the Oireachtas through the committee structure, not just this committee but other relevant committees that may have input into what is ultimately a cross-departmental and cross-Oireachtas committee set of issues, to give them adequate involvement in shaping this policy statement, and likewise the ability to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister. I accept the spirit in which he is conducting the debate and I want to do likewise. I am still not clear on the relationship between the policy statement, the marine planning framework and the marine spatial plans. I am more confused now than when I first read the legislation. When the Minister of State comes to respond, I am really interested to know the following....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I was just being flippant.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not easily offended.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will that be specified by way of regulation or is that just a matter of course?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would that be by way of a Government amendment on Report Stage?