Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

That was the amendment Dr. Clinton referred to earlier. I will let Mr. Swan come in soon but I want to follow on with this question. The suggestion is that if we had an advisory council, it would be the best body to make a determination on what we should do here. Earlier, I asked if we had an advisory body, how busy would it be? How many times would it be called into action? Would it be constantly having a look at sites? There are approximately 130,000 monuments. We are obviously going through another cycle of construction and development. It is possible that not as many roads will be built as there have in the past, but roads maintenance will continue. How resourced would the advisory council have to be and how quick would it have to be in order to react? When someone has to wait a long time for a determination, that is when damage can be done. That is when people get frustrated and they say that they might not go into this process at all and find another way of doing this, as we have seen happen at various historical heritage sites.