Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We have talked about the Valletta Convention but there are three or four other conventions mentioned in the legislation. Head 45 refers to the UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects. The next one is the UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Many of these are quite old. The latter convention is from 1970. The final one of which I could find mention was the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. They are all useful to have and protect, but have we signed up to other conventions or not incorporated them properly or are there others to which we have not signed up? There was mention of the Granada Convention among a number of others when we were in the Moore Street advisory committee. People had raised a similar convention to protect built heritage and the likes.