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

I have two additional points. I support Deputy Matthews. Most of us will have in our constituencies old telephone boxes that are no longer used as telephone boxes. Either the structure remains and it is very difficult to get it removed or we have seen a more recent phenomenon of the company that owns the structure not installing a new phone in it or sometimes removing the phones, but putting new advertising on it. Given it was intended as phone box rather than an advertising structure, there clearly needs to be something to ensure that if a structure has a principle purpose which is not advertising and that principle purpose ceases to operate, such as with telephone boxes, for example, it cannot then be used for advertising where it would not have been granted in the original application. It is not included in Deputy Matthews's amendments, but I ask the officials to consider it. It is a perpetual problem in constituencies and because the structure has planning permission, albeit no longer used in the way it was intended, it causes difficulties.