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

Photo of Steven MatthewsSteven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We are almost out of time but I have some questions about the heads of the Bill. They relate to something Deputy Ó Snodaigh asked earlier. Many monuments have no signage and we do not know where they are. In a way, that offers them some protection until something goes wrong. We do not attract heavy footfall to them, we do not need landscape management plans and there is no great demand for car parking. How can we protect that kind of hidden nature of some of those sites if we were to provide signage and information and perhaps attract footfall?

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