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- 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 (3 Feb 2022)
Steven Matthews: I welcome everyone to the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage where we recommence our pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the monuments and archaeological heritage Bill. We are joined from An Taisce by Mr. Gary Freemantle, interim chief executive officer Mr. Ian Lumley, head of advocacy, and Dr. Mark Clinton, monuments and antiquities. We are also joined...
- 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 (3 Feb 2022)
Steven Matthews: I ask the witnesses to try to keep their opening statements to approximately five minutes. It will help us. We can return to anything in the statements that is not read into the record when we get to the question-and-answer session.
- 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 (3 Feb 2022)
Steven Matthews: I thank Dr. Johnson. To answer her comment that LAAN would welcome the opportunity to submit more detailed comments, that option is open to everybody who attends because sometimes witnesses, after they have left a meeting, think of something that they might want to furnish to the committee. I assure everyone that we would find that very helpful. I do not know if the addendum was sent to...
- 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 (3 Feb 2022)
Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Swan. We will now move to questions from members. I forgot to mention at the start of the meeting that Deputy Duffy sends his apologies as he is unable to attend today.
- 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 (3 Feb 2022)
Steven Matthews: The second question-----
- 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 (3 Feb 2022)
Steven Matthews: I am sorry to interrupt Dr. Clinton, but I have to-----
- 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 (3 Feb 2022)
Steven Matthews: It is all relevant, but we are up to nine minutes. I can only keep it to seven minutes. I have no doubt-----
- 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 (3 Feb 2022)
Steven Matthews: I thank the Senator. I have to give everybody seven minutes. It means everybody gets a chance to answer. Senator Boyhan has nine minutes. I thank him for pointing that out; I said we had gone over nine minutes.
- 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 (3 Feb 2022)
Steven Matthews: Absolutely, we will. It is an important point, as is the recommendation. If everybody sticks to seven minutes, I will have a free round at the end. If everybody assists me with that, we will have a free-flowing meeting.
- 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 (3 Feb 2022)
Steven Matthews: I apologise for interrupting, but I must advise members that if they spend four or five minutes asking questions it does not leave enough time for the witnesses to give a substantial answer. If members would stick to direct questions, we would get through a lot more. Time permitting, we will have a second round and we can go into the issues in more detail. I ask members to try to assist me...
- 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 (3 Feb 2022)
Steven Matthews: Absolutely, but I think we will have time. I can bring the Senator back in later and we can deal with it.