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Fri 10 Oct 2009New Bill to protect Irish landscape
New proposals to give legal protection to landscapes will be brought before the Cabinet before Christmas, the Minister for the Environment has said.
Speaking at the Heritage Council's Landscape Conference in Co Offaly this morning, John Gormley said a new National Monuments Bill would offer two levels of protection to the landscape and ensure "the sort of problems encountered at Tara" during the construction of the N3 would not reoccur.
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