Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2021-12-14
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Victor Boyhan (IND), Agricultural Panel

This is about the amendment. This is a reference to how my colleague suggested that it was going to be considered. Everything is going to be considered. Indeed, I might even consider it myself. Let us not deal with someone outside the room. Let us take it inside the room. I may myself decide to do so, if necessary, as is the right of a citizen. Let us not shake our heads because that is the right of a citizen.
For clarification, I do not take an item of legislation and break it up. That is why I had subsections (b) and (c). I broke up the points and I did not put them all in one amendment. I clearly set them out. The first one states "available for inspection at local authority planning office". That is simple for anyone to read and is in my proposed section 6(10)(b). As subsection (c) is another section, this is not all a conglomerated effort. However, we are having a healthy debate here and we are having banter. I am a democrat and I will go along with the decision about this amendment. The bottom line is that I would like to think that the Minister of State could support this amendment. If he does not, I will call for a roll call vote. This is because this is too important to have bits of hearsay and then everyone goes out of the room and talks about the Aarhus Convention. Let us call a spade a spade. We are either for it and we support it, or we do not.

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Sitting date: 2021-12-14