Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I do not think it has been moved from one place to another. This is an obligation to prepare a strategy for conservation of natural and built heritage. Quite reasonably, a local authority may have a strategy for conservation of natural and built heritage. In this, it has its strategy on landscape conservation. The strategy may state there will be a landscape conservation area because the landscape is of such particular importance in the area and the way it will be protected will be through having a landscape conservation area. Now, hey presto, the local authority cannot have a landscape conservation area. We can have the overarching strategy but the mechanism to give effect to that strategy, which is the landscape conservation area, is gone. Having a high-level strategy is great but we need to have the measures that give effect to it.