Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 June 2023

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a final point on this. Let us take two of the categories we are adding, namely, social history and women's history. Social history often refers to the history of people, working people, the working classes or marginalised cultures. One of the reason we name social history and women's history, not just in this Bill but in master's programmes, in journals, in people's professional titles, such as professor of women's history, professor of social history, is because the assumption that if they are just anonymously subsumed into general categories they will be dealt with has not proven to be the case. I am not necessarily saying that all of the list deserves equal merit but for some of them there is a real need to be included and a real value to being included. I am not convinced and I will press the amendment.

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