Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Architectural conservation areas are, as all of us who have been involved in the preparation of county development plans know, a practical and useful tool that has been in use for the past quarter of a century. Landscape conservation areas have not succeeded in their objective. I do not see the benefit of legislating for something which, in practice, has not turned out to be useful or used.