Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We often see reports on protected structures indicating that works have been done that have degraded them, with the report questioning, as a result of those works that were done in the past, whether a building should remain as a protected structure. This is something of which we need to be aware and cautious. Where there is a slow degradation that is purposely done, it gives an owner good scope to say the building should be removed from the list of protected structures. To clarify, owners cannot rely on subsection 281(5) to do that?