Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 January 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael)
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We can move it to a more macro level. I am very sensitive to the need for care and consideration on anything around to this. I am confused about how this might relate to developing the site of a former industrial school or a former Magdalen laundry.
We have one former Magdalen laundry in the north inner city that is in the care of Dublin City Council. There has been no move to either preserve or demolish the site, or do anything with the site. Again, to come back to an earlier question, what decides that something is a monument? Where is the threshold whereby it is decided that something is selected to be preserved or deemed to be of national interest?