Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

That is what it comes down to — allowing for archaeological and heritage considerations to be given a secondary or subsidiary consideration when development works are being undertaken. The Bill will have more significance for the forthcoming road development at Tara and Skryne, the proposed development of the M3, than it will have for Carrickmines. Archaeologists and historians have been before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment and Local Government to set out their concerns that the proposed motorway development which will go through the Hill of Tara and Skryne will have major implications for the archaeology and heritage, not just of this country but of the entire Celtic world.

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