The Heritage Bill: A tissue of internal contradictions and absurdities, it’s hard to discuss
Environmental bodies from all over Ireland Protest outside Dail Eireann earlier this year against the Heritage Bill. On the 5th of December 2017, the President of the United State, Donald Trump, announced the removal of large swathes of land in Utah, 2 million hectares, under government jurisdiction from conservation status. President Trump has always made clear his attitude towards nature. Environmental destruction for business gain. Therefore much was made in the media both here and around the world of his announcement. Yet on the same day this statement was made, the Irish Government was putting the finishing touches to a Bill that would remove conservation status to an area much larger than that proclaimed by President Trump. That area being, the Republic of Ireland. Having already passed in the Dail, the death knell of Irelands eco-system, perversely called the Heritage Bill was being ‘debated’ in the Oireachtas. I use the term, ‘debated,’ lightly, as there is no