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

Mr. Rónán Swan:

Heads 8 and 9 are particularly important. A crucial element is the requirement for people to report a prescribed monument. In essence, I would want to explore how that will work in practice. The principle of where researchers or archeologists carrying out development works or scoping works for Eir, etc. will provide an option to identify a large range of monuments. If we can capture those monuments and sites, from a development point of view, those may be considered as constraints we are trying to avoid in the course of the design of our cities. Capturing those monuments at the outset will be important as it will inform research for future design and make people aware of the monuments in their locality. Currently, we do not have a system where monuments can be easily updated and in that way inform future developments. If we can get that right in this Bill, it would be a major achievement.

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