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

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. Section 6 of the committee's pre-legislative scrutiny report made this or a similar recommendation and we think it is a much stronger proposition than what the Government has done. On that basis, unless the Minister of State convinces me otherwise, I will be pressing this amendment.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 35: In page 26, line 29, after “thing” ” to insert “, except for the purposes ofsection 173,”.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Amendment No. 35 seeks to add "except for the purposes of section 173", after the term "relevant thing". The reason is that our reading of the Bill suggests that the general interpretation of "relevant thing" does not cover those relevant in section 173 because in that section there is a specific and totally different definition, at the top of page 150 of the Bill. While structures or sites...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 38: In page 27, line 1, after "place" to insert ", or which was associated with or significant to the planning, development or consequences of a historical event or period, or the life of a historic person".

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

Eoin Ó Broin: As they are a little bit separate, could we tease out the Minister's amendments first?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes. Am I correct that this introduces a new type of world heritage property in the State?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Are there implications in terms of section 9D(1) of the Official Languages Act to use the Irish language for new titles? Existing world heritage sites already use Irish titles primarily.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Minister of State.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: It may not be. I have a feeling that a colleague might return to it on a later Stage.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The purpose of amendment No. 218 is to require the Minister to consult people in the communities most affected by the potential inclusion of a site on the world heritage list. This is to ensure democratic participation and local community activism in heritage protection. We believe this is in line with Article 15 of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. ...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: We have a cliffhanger.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: No, let us break for half an hour.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: In what manner do those amendments relate to this Bill? That is a serious question to the Minister of State.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Are those amendments consequential to this Bill?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: To go back to the Minister of State's announcement after the suspension, I have a question about the further set of proposed amendments the Minister of State intends to bring on Report Stage. Are they consequential to this Bill or are they a further set of non-consequential amendments?

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State will need another Oireachtas motion to do that.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will hold my fire on that particular one until we get to those non-consequential amendments, in the interests of expediency. Taking the amendments in reverse order, I am taken by the Minister of State's argument in relation to the proposition in amendment No. 220. I am seeking the Minister of State's opinion rather than a commitment from him. I presume all or most of the sites are...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 44: In page 29, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “Valletta Convention 3.(1) Nothing in this Act shall be understood to violate or undermine the definitions, principles and requirements outlined in the Valletta Convention to which Ireland is a signatory. (2) The Minister, the Commissioners, the Board, the Council and each local authority, shall...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: As a courtesy to other members, I will say now that I will call a vote on the next amendment. That will save them leaving and having to come back again.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.