Seanad debates
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Archaeological Sites
8:00 pm
Ciarán Cannon (Fine Gael)
I thank the Minister for his reply which somehow implies it was the developer's idea to preserve the remains in situ, namely, entomb them in concrete and build the road over them. It was not. It was the idea of the archaeologist working in the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, supported by senior roads engineers in Galway County Council. The idea was proposed by the Minister's expert in the field of archaeology. I sincerely hope that when the Minister uses the words "as speedily as possible", they will somehow have a different meaning to the words "as quickly as possible", which he used on 22 April 2009.
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