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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;”.

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. 29: In page 24, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “ “National Monuments Advisory Council” means the body established by subsections (1) to (3) of section 21 of the National Monuments Act 1930 and amended by subsections (1) and (2) of section 15 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1954;”.

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

Cian O'Callaghan: What is suggested in Deputy Ó Broin's amendments is better than the current wording, which is highly restrictive. Most people do not get their news from national print newspapers; they get it from news broadcasts or online. Print editions of most daily newspapers may not be with us in five or ten years, which will make much of this obsolete. That is a detail around what is the best...

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. It is positive that he is looking at my amendment to section 2 with a view to pursuing it on Report Stage, subject to advice. The amendment would legally oblige landowners to notify and inform any future owners of the property as to the presence and legal status of registered monuments. It is positive that he is looking at it. The Minister...

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 said he wanted to work towards giving specific notice for general protection and not just special protection. He said that was subject to resources. Will he expand on that? When will we have an idea of the timeline in that regard?

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

Cian O'Callaghan: The whole point of section 9(2) is based on the landowner having been notified about the monument and then having a legal responsibility to pass that information on. If the landowner is not legally notified of the presence of the monument, he or she may not have the information and be unable to pass it on. Such landowners may or may not have seen notice in the post office, Garda station or...