Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 182:

. In page 76, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(5) Nothing in this section shall operate to prevent any provision of this Act having effect in relation to a prescribed monument notwithstanding that a relevant date has not been specified in respect of the geographical area of the State in which the monument is situated.”.

Section 48 allows the Minister to publish a notice in Iris Oifigiúilspecifying a date from which the register of monuments supersedes the register of historic monuments established under the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1987 or the record of monuments and places established under the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994. Amendment No. 182 is introduced to make it explicitly clear that in a situation where the register of monuments has yet to be established, if they are commenced in the meantime, the provisions relating to prescribed monuments will have effect in relation to monuments in the record of monuments and places and the register of historic monuments. In effect, this will mean that general protection will apply to the vast majority of, if not all, such monuments.