Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I think everybody has respect for everybody else’s views here, and this is really assisting us to get this legislation right and to ensure we make proper recommendations. It was mentioned that Northern Ireland is a good example of where an advisory council works. Is Dr. Clinton suggesting the advisory council would be brought in only for potentially exceptional sites, whereby at some stage some sort of preliminary assessment would have been carried out by somebody else? It could be the network of archaeological officers at local authority to try it out and make an assessment.