Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 53:

"In page 10, line 16, after “subsoil” to insert “to a depth of 30 feet”."

This amendment relates to another part of the Bill on the foreshore. It seeks to amend the definition of "foreshore" in section 13 of the Bill to clarify that, as was the case in the 1933 Act, the foreshore is considered to include subsoil but to a depth of 30 f. Under the current legislation, even on the first page of the 1933 Act, there are specifications that make the depth. It specifically mentions subjects such as mineral extraction, for example, and that it is to a depth of 30 ft. to which foreshore licences may relate.

The definition of foreshore, as proposed in this Bill, is, “is deemed to include, and always to have included, the subsoil below, and the water column above the bed and shore referred to in that definition.”.” Although it is in another part of the Bill, my concern is that it no longer seems to have the specification of 30 ft. Could the Minister of State elaborate on that?