Fintan Towey
From Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
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Responsibility at Assistant Secretary level for the Water Division, which is concerned with Water Sector Policy, including the implementation of sectoral reforms, the governance and funding of Irish Water and the Ervia Group, the oversight of the Group Water sector and the implementation of the Water Framework Directive, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, development of a marine spatial planning framework for Ireland and foreshore legal framework. The division also has responsibility for marine planning, through the development of Ireland’s first Marine Spatial Plan and the regulation of development and activity on the foreshore which extends along over 3000 km of shoreline from the high water mark out to 12 nautical miles (22km) in accordance with the provisions of the Foreshore Act 1933, as amended.