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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: In the case of removing special protection, under this legislation, the public could write in, that might be considered by the Minister but there is nothing to say that the matter will be considered by the Minister. This is a deeply flawed approach.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I will withdraw the amendment in that case.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 115: In page 44, line 33, after “owner” to insert “and by the public,”.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for the response. The Taoiseach indicated the law may need to be strengthened in this area and the Minister of State is saying he is open to reflecting on it, which is welcome, but yet again, workers who are due wages have not been paid. This could set a precedent other companies follow. It is completely wrong that people would turn up to do their work, with a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what engagement he has had with the management of a company (details supplied); if he will meet with workers and their representatives; if he will take steps to ensure the employment rights of the workers are protected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31853/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Iceland workers who are owed holiday pay in their wages have been staging sit-ins in Talbot Street and Coolock. They have been treated disgracefully by the owners. Workers should not have to stage sit-ins to get the wages they are due. Will the Minister meet the workers and their representatives? What has he done to ensure their rights are fully protected and their wages are paid? Has he...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I express my full solidarity and support for the workers who are staging sit-ins in Coolock and Talbot Street, and indeed all the Iceland workers. The issue here is that low-paid workers are the backbone of companies like Iceland and they simply cannot afford not to have the wages owed to them paid in a timely manner. One worker is owed almost...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Homeless Persons Supports (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: 314. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps her Department is taking to increase employment participation among people who are homeless; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31913/23]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I support amendments Nos. 266 and 267. Amendment No. 267 mentions the Valletta Convention, which is very important, but also our obligations under the Aarhus Convention and United Nations sustainable development goals. Amendment No. 266 seeks a report within 12 months on the conservation and protection of national monuments. I think all of us are agreed that what we are covering in this...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Minister of State might clarify something. He said the amendments go beyond the scope of the Bill. We have 25 pages of amendments that have come in from the Minister of State that go well beyond the original scope of Bill and have nothing to do with archaeology and heritage. I am glad to acknowledge his interest in that particular point, but what elements of these amendments does he...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 29 is to include in the list of bodies and definitions the national monuments advisory council. It is absolutely critical, and I made this point on Second Stage, that we have such a council as part of the safeguards and checks and balances on this legislation, especially when, never mind the language in the Bill, we are talking about provisions that will provide for the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He said there will be more staffing resources for the Heritage Council so it can carry out its function properly. Will he clarify what staffing resource it has currently in terms of archaeological staff and historians? What does he think that will be increased to? It is welcome to hear the number will be increased but will it be increased by...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: My concern is the bigger picture on this. Since 1840, according to a Heritage Council survey in 2001, 34% of archaeological monuments have been destroyed, and that has continued since 2001. That is a complete failure of the legislation we have had to date and the resources that have been put in behind it. Once a monument is destroyed, it is destroyed forever; that is it. It is gone. It...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: What sort of number are we looking at, out of 20,000? It is my contention that we are currently failing on this. We need to re-establish the national monuments advisory council. We need to avail of that expertise in order that we can get much better outcomes in terms of preserving our heritage and archaeology.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: Amendment No. 11 will ensure "archaeological reserves" will have the same meaning as in Articles 2 and 4 of the European Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage, that is, the Valletta Convention. The term "archaeological reserves" should be incorporated in the Bill as interpreted in accordance with the principles and requirements as laid out in the articles of the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The current situation with legislation relating to monuments is that areas surrounding them can also be protected. That is quite different from an archaeological reserve or landscape. We are talking about the area surrounding a monument. Such an area could be relatively small. That is very different. Ireland ratified the Valletta...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I was asking specifically where in the Bill are the archaeological reserves addressed and defined.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Valletta Convention to which we signed up is very specific with regard to archaeological reserves. It is not a matter of having legislation where-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 11: In page 19, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “ “Archaeological Reserves” has the same meaning as it has in Article 2(i) & (ii), and Article 4(i) of the Convention for the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage of Europe adopted at Valletta on 16 January 1992 and ratified by Dáil Éireann in 1997;”.