Debate contribution: Historical Sites: Protection

Debate contribution by Mr Doug Beattie MC on 30 June 2025.

MLA: Mr Doug Beattie MC
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 30 June 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Historical Sites: Protection
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5043243

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I thank the Minister for his answer. I am genuinely concerned about our historical heritage. In my constituency, the Waringstown grange and rath and the Ballintaggart court tomb, which was nearly 2,000 years old, were both ripped up. Of course, I have raised in the House many times the issue of Knock Iveagh, where a wind turbine sits on top of a 2,000-year-old burial ground. When is the HED going to use its statutory powers of enforcement to get that wind turbine off that historical site?

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 2264/22-27.

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