Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I do not think we need to go down that route. It is well-documented and anybody can look back at the record and see who was Minister when that decision was made.
On the question of preserving on-site, I do not understand the process around that. It is up to the Minister to decide whether to preserve this find on-site as it is and move the road, or change the building layout, or whatever it will be. Alternatively, it can be decided to preserve it by record, which means you just bury it, go through it, destroy it.
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