Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is the process of the declaration that I am raising. How do you know you have triggered the need for a declaration? That is the point I am curious about. I have had the experience of being involved in a project that was building homeless accommodation on a site in Dublin 2 that was thought to have been sterilised. It was believed that the previous foundations had been put in there, two builders had gone bust and it was just concreted over and turned into a car park. It is in Dublin city centre, and when the builders went in to put in the foundations for a six-storey development, they turned up a mortmain - it had been a previous famine burial ground. As we were in Dublin city centre, we had an archaeologist on site. The whole project was halted for a six-month period as archaeologists worked on it. My question relates to people who will eventually be working on developments at places like the railway works in my home constituency of Dublin South-Central. How will they know they have triggered the need to make a declaration and how will that come about?