Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Preservation of Historic Buildings: Discussion

1:40 pm

Photo of Ned O'SullivanNed O'Sullivan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Everyone will understand why a building should be preserved, in so far as it can be, if it has unique architectural features or because of its antiquity. What is the professor's position on retaining a building that, in itself, has no architectural merit whatsoever but because of something that occurred in it? Is it as important to retain such a building as the Acropolis, for example?

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