List of Applications for a Licence under the Maritime Area Planning Act, 2021
The table below sets out applications for Maritime Usage Licences (MULs) with MARA for determination. Details in relation to MUL determinations are available to view here.
Reference Number | Applicant | Location of Activity | County | Activity | Status |
North Irish Sea Array Windfarm Limited | Off the coasts of counties Dublin, Meath and Louth | Dublin, Meath and Louth | Site investigation activities to inform the development of the North Irish Sea Array (NISA) offshore windfarm (OWF) and export cable, off the coasts of counties Dublin, Meath and Louth. | Consultation Closed | |
Port of Waterford | River Suir at the Port of Waterford Belview Co Kilkenny | Kilkenny/ Waterford | Geotechnical investigation required to support the design of a proposed 250m Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) capable quay extension in the River Suir at the Port of Waterford, Belview, Co. Kilkenny | Applied | |
Shannon Foynes | Foynes Island | Limerick | Site investigation to support the preliminary and detailed engineering design of the deep water terminal development on Foynes island. | Consultation Closed | |
Doyle Shipping Group | Lower harbour of Cork on the western side of the River Lee | Cork | Site investigation in the maritime area including reclaimed dockland and surrounding nearshore to aid the design of increased port facilities in support of the ORE industry. | Withdrawn | |
Aughinish Alumina Ltd | Shannon Estuary | Limerick | Maintenance dredging at four sites around the Aughinish Alumina Ltd (AAL) jetty, Shannon Estuary, Co. Limerick. | Applied | |
Electricity Supply Board | Moneypoint | Clare | ESB intends to undertake a survey campaign at the Moneypoint Generating Station site to inform the engineering design of the proposed Moneypoint Hub Project. The marine surveys will include geophysical, geotechnical, environmental, and met ocean surveys. | Consultation Closed | |
Iarnród Éireann | East Coast | Dublin to Wicklow | A Geotechnical Investigation (GI) and Geophysical site investigation surveys to inform design options for the proposed East Coast Rail Infrastructure Protection Projects (ECRIPP). The purpose of ECRIPP is to implement protection measures to at risk sections of the Dublin to Wexford railway line from the effects of climate change and coastal erosion. | Applied | |
Dublin City Council | Point Bridge and Tom Clarke | Dublin | Environmental survey and ground investigation works in order to inform the design of proposed Point Bridge and Tom Clarke Widening Project. | Applied | |
Port of Waterford Company | Waterford Estuary | Waterford | Maintenance dredging of accumulated sediments to maintain the port’s navigational trade areas. | Applied | |
Wicklow County Council | Wicklow Port | Wicklow | Maintenance dredging of the navigation channel, turning basin and berths within Wicklow Port. | Applied | |
Deep Sea Fibre Networks Ltd. | South West of Ireland | Galway | Marine Survey and Site Investigations for a cable route for the PISCES subsea telecoms cable system from a landfall at Ballyloughane County Galway traversing the Irish Maritime Area to the south west of Ireland. | Applied | |
Apem Group | Blasket Sound, Great Blasket, Dingle Peninsula | Kerry | Survey works are to be carried out including deployment of static Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) devices, boat-based line transects, intertidal and subtidal surveys. | Applied | |
Department of Defence | Haulbowline Naval Base | Cork | The proposed maritime usage is for maintenance dredging of the entrance channel and the southern part of the Graving Dock. Maintenance dredging of the basin and entrance channel takes place approximately every 5 to 6 years to ensure the safe navigation of the naval fleet in the Haulbowline Naval Base, with the last Maintenance dredging campaign performed in 2017. | Applied | |
Codling Wind Park Limited (CWPL) | East Coast of Ireland | Dublin to Wicklow | CWPL intends to undertake survey mobilisations at the proposed Licence Area to inform the location and detailed design of the proposed CWP OWF, export cable route, potential operations and maintenance base, potential land reclamation area at the potential onshore substation location, and additional buffer zones. | Applied | |
Amazon MCS Ireland Ltd | Across the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to a landfall on the East Coast of the United States | Cork | Geophysical survey and site investigations for a proposed transatlantic subsea fibre optic cable having a landfall at Castlefreke, County Cork to evaluate options for the route across the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to a landfall on the East Coast of the United States. | Applied | |
University College Cork | Celtic Sea | N/A | The proposed maritime usage is to deploy passive acoustic monitoring devices (“acoustic receivers”) to identify the presence/absence of acoustically tagged elasmobranchs (sharks, skates and rays) in the Celtic Sea. | Applied | |
SEATEC | South West Ireland | N/A | The proposed maritime usage involves the salvage operation of the cargo of the SS Ohio, a World War I era steamship located 142 NM from the Irish territorial waters at a depth of 330 meters. The objective is to retrieve non-ferrous metals from the wreck site while ensuring minimal environmental impact. | Applied | |
MaresConnect Ltd | Portmarnock to Ardgillan | Dublin | The proposed maritime usage involves conducting site investigation surveys to assess various factors, including seabed suitability and stability for routing cables and other electrical infrastructure associated with the interconnector project from the 12 nautical mile (nm) limit to the EEZ. | Applied | |
University College Cork | Celtic Sea | N/A | This marine environmental survey for the purpose of scientific research and discovery aims to shed light at the palaeo-channel network of the Celtic Sea and assess potentially important benthic habitats. | Applied |