Mr. Seán Carpenter:

Some of the logic or the reasoning behind these definitions being as broad as they are is, as the Minister of State referred to earlier, because we are hoping that this legislation will be in place for a long time, if it is enacted. We want these definitions to be broad so we can take account of different policies, and that we would not have to worry about having to amend the legislation. It is important that whatever is defined under the current legislative framework would be transferred over to the proposed framework so that nothing would drop out. The definitions will provide for relevant things of relevant interest, but this just means that they will be eligible to be a prescribed monument or entered into the register of monuments. It will not be an automatic entry. It will probably come down to the policy at the time as to what is prescribed and what is entered into the register.