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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: 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.

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. 46: In page 29, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(a) that the historic, archaeological and cultural heritage of Ireland, as the product of the labour, craftsmanship and talent of their forebearers, belongs equally to all the people of the Irish nation and that this heritage must be protected for the people and as the inheritance to which...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister almost said that with a straight face.

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I will not labour the point but I wish to emphasise two points in relation to amendment Nos. 46 and 50. The intention of amendment No. 46 is not to be a fine statement, it is to enshrine a right-based approach in legislation. The Constitutional Convention, as it was probably called then back in 2011, deliberated to a great extent on the issue of enshrining social, economic and cultural...

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. 47: In page 29, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(a) that the people have a right to appreciate, view and learn from their heritage, that existing rights of way to access, appreciate or view heritage should be vindicated and that, where possible, rights of way should be established in the case of monuments where they have not yet been...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: On amendment No. 192, the State not only can override the rights of private property interests but does it all the time. The Constitution makes explicit provision for it on the grounds of natural justice and the common good. We also have a whole raft of legislation which, in very specific circumstances and for very appropriate reasons, ensures the State can intervene and significantly...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: I ask the Minister of State to go back and reconsider this aspect. I will give a concrete example. I live in the centre of Clondalkin village. We have an eighth-century round tower almost directly opposite the house I live in. I am blessed to have such a beautiful monument in front of the house. It is owned by the OPW and that organisation also owns a small portion of the land. The...

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. 50: In page 29, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “(3) The Minister, the Commissioners, the Board, the Council and each local authority, as relevant, shall be answerable for the performance of their functions under this Act to the Joint Oireachtas Committee with responsibility for heritage.”.

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. 51: In page 30, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(5) (a) In the case of historic, archaeological and cultural heritage produced in or which originated in Ireland, but which is beyond the territorial extent set out in subsection (1) as a result of theft, plunder, deception, colonial practices, other unethical methods or where there is doubt...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: They are not the same thing, with the greatest of respect. The provisions the Minister of State mentioned create an international legal framework whereby a government may do that if it considers it appropriate. What this amendment would do, in providing that "the Minister shall actively endeavour to secure repatriation of such heritage", is place an obligation. I am open to a suggested...