Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2021-12-14
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I will not press the amendment but suggest it is important there might need to be a review of some of them. I appreciate we do not want approvals falling off a cliff but we also might need to ensure, as part of that engagement with local authorities we have discussed at other points, that there is a review. Something that might have responded to a need identified by a local authority now has to be considered with regard to its intersection with multiple other needs. The issue can be teased out and I do not want to create an inadvertent cliff effect in terms of existing approvals but it is important that we looked at the mechanisms in local authorities for reviewing previous uses. We know it is an area where practice, learning and information available evolve all the time

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Sitting date: 2021-12-14