Statement. Campaign to Save Tara,
11th. July 2007, 15:10.

Campaign welcomes moratorium call
- by MEP Kathy Sinnott

The Campaign to Save Tara welcomes the call by the Independent MEP Kathy Sinnott for an "immediate moratorium on M3 construction". We are calling on Minister Gormley and the Government to listen to the EU and the concerns expresses by Commissioner Stavros Dimas if they will not listen to the people of Ireland.

The fact that the National Monument of Lismullin was not discovered by the initial exploratory methods demonstrates that there may be other monuments still undiscovered on the route.

The destruction of Baronstown under cover of darkness, just before documents released by the Department of Environment showed that the Director of the National Museum considered it a National Monument as well, adds to the urgent need for such a moratorium. The National Roads Authority, a development body, has assumed to itself the power to designate a National Monument in Ireland and the advice of the Director is being ignored.

The Campaign to Save Tara demands that the letter about the demolition of newly discovered monuments from the EU Commission to Kathy Sinnott be heeded and that this moratorium begins immediately. The Commission's letter applies to Baronstown as much as it does to Lismullin. We also demand at this stage that the rest of the route between Dunshaughlin and Navan be archaeologically examined by geophysical survey before it is left to a bulldozer driver to discover the next National Monument that may come to light in this highly sensitive area.

ENDS

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