5. 4. Debate by Individual Members under Standing Order 11.21(iv): The Blue Economy

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:33 pm on 22 March 2017.

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Photo of Huw Irranca-Davies Huw Irranca-Davies Labour 3:33, 22 March 2017

Thank you. I thank Vikki for giving way, and congratulate her and other colleagues, and Jeremy, for introducing this. Would she agree with me that because of the potential, the very potential of the renewable energy sector, whether it’s tidal lagoons, whether it’s other floor-bed renewables and so on, but also dredging, pipe laying et cetera, in concert with taking forward the potential of the blue economy, we also need to understand the carrying capacity of the different parts of our seas, and we also need marine spatial planning now to be bolted down, so we don’t have piecemeal development, we have planned development, knowing what the capacity of our seabed, and our hidden blue yonder actually is?