Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Are any particular initiatives being taken to encourage the private sector where monuments or sites are in private ownership with a view to ensuring their preservation into the future and to ensuring such sites do not fade from memory? For example, a site in the middle of a forest may become extremely vague in so far as the local people are concerned. Measures might be put in place to ensure that such sites and locations are not lost forever with the passage of time. I suggest that we might initiate a particular programme of archaeological investigation and excavation to allow the present generation to avail of the benefit of such sites' existence and the knowledge that goes with it.

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