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

Dr. Sharon Greene:

Off the top of my head, from what I can recall from having read the general scheme, I am not sure it does provide for that. It provides for national monuments and other bodies to promote, publish and so on but I think we can go further with the provision, as I said earlier, of having archaeologists in the landscapes and within the communities whom people will know to talk to. We should not just wait for the public to say they have found something to be identified or that they are interested in. We need people who can go into the landscape, meet landowners and educate them. As I said earlier, it is important that we inform landowners about what they own, which is allowed for, and tie that information to the property in order that if someone buys a property, he or she will know what is there.

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