Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 99:

In page 41, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following:

“Record of protected monuments

19.(1) It will be a requirement of Planning Authorities to include any entries in the Register of Monuments relevant to their area of jurisdiction within the Record of Protected Structures of their City and/or County Development Plans.

(2) It will be a requirement of Planning Authorities to reference protected monuments,including but not limited to those on the Register, on their City and/or County Development Plan maps.”

Amendment No. 99 relates to a record of protected monuments. It requires registered monuments to be included in the record of protected structures. We have an anomaly that every five years the city and county development plans are put together. There are related maps and so on. Most people focus on the changes to zoning and what land is set aside for residential use and so on. However, the record of protected structures is part of that process. They are protected for a reason. Most would be regarded as national monuments but they do not all have the same protection. It seems that there is a dual list and this amendment attempts to ensure that record is taken into account in the list we discussed earlier, namely, the register of monuments, so that there is no anomaly. Perhaps the Minister of State will explain whether an anomaly would arise in this instance. Otherwise it would be logical to combine the two lists.