It’s 18 months since MARA, the State’s first marine planning authority, set up shop in Wexford, led by chief executive Laura Brien.
How is it getting on in relation to offshore wind planning, and is some of the new Maritime Area Planning Act legislation causing problems for research scientists?
These and other questions were addressed by Ms Brien in an interview with Wavelengths…during which she also mentioned that she is a Dublin Bay sailor.
Listen to Wavelengths below
Lorna Siggins is a print and radio reporter, and a former Irish Times western correspondent. She is the author of Search and Rescue: True stories of Irish Air-Sea Rescues and the Loss of R116 (2022); Everest Callling (1994) on the first Irish Everest expedition; Mayday! Mayday! (2004); and Once Upon a Time in the West: the Corrib gas controversy (2010). She is also co-producer with Sarah Blake of the Doc on One "Miracle in Galway Bay" which recently won a Celtic Media Award
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