Dr. Mark Clinton:

The Heritage Council does excellent work but it is not quite what this requires. Senator Fitzpatrick asked earlier about composition. In the original advisory council, for example, we had representatives from the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, which are just three examples. The Minister would not be appointing this advisory council and, in other words, the Royal Irish Academy would decide who should represent it, the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland would decide, and so on, and we would have an independent advisory council representing the objectives of their own base camp. As such, it would be truly independent, without conflicts of interest. Taking a leaf out of the 1930 Act, as amended in the 1954 Act, and the relevant sections such as section 21, that is a good starting point. Those are three obvious members of the advisory council.