Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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To be clear, is this just putting back in what was in the Roads Act 1993 to ensure that local authorities can give an order to remove these branches, or in the event of the landowner not doing it the local authority can do the removal and charge the landowner for doing it? Is it the case that it can only be done on the say-so of the local authority and not on the initiative of the landholder?