Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

On buildings specifically, there is a mechanism within local authorities, using the record of protected structures, to protect buildings. It is a different basis for protection and the power lies as a reserved function of local authority members. Usually, those building protections come about as recommendations from the national inventory of architectural heritage. That is the mechanism. Local authority members have the power to add or remove buildings from the record of protected structures.