The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ( NIAH ) maintains a central database of the architectural heritage of the Republic of Ireland covering the period since 1700 in complement to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland , which focuses on archaeological sites of the pre-1700 period. As of 2022, there are over 50,000 records in the database, including buildings, monuments, street furniture and other structures. It does not cover Northern Ireland .
17-729: Buildings recorded in the database are given a rating, either national or regional. The NIAH is a unit of the Heritage Division within the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage . The unit was founded in 1990 to address the obligations of the Convention for the Protection of the Architectural Heritage of Europe of which Ireland is signatory. Initially, the NIAH existed only on
34-586: A statutory instrument is a form of delegated legislation . Statutory instruments are the principal form of delegated or secondary legislation in the United Kingdom . Statutory instruments (or 'regulations') are primarily governed by the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 , which replaced the system of statutory rules and orders governed by the Rules Publication Act 1893 . Following
51-608: A full debate on contentious issues. Devolved administrations also have the power to make Statutory Instruments within the heads of powers that are devolved to them. Wales Statutory Instruments made by the Welsh Government are published as a subseries of the UK statutory instrument series—for example, the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2017 is numbered 2017 No. 714 (W. 171) , meaning it
68-472: A non-statutory basis with the task to create and maintain an inventory of to be protected buildings and sites. The legal framework for the NIAH was established with the Architectural Heritage (National Inventory) and Historic Monuments (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act of 1999 which introduced access rights to the interior of buildings for the NIAH and preservation obligations for the local planning authorities. The subsequent Planning and Development Act 2000 delegated
85-546: A subseries of the UK series—instead, they are published separately by the Queen's Printer for Scotland . However, any UK statutory instruments dealing with reserved matters and applying only to Scotland are published in a UK subseries, such as the Insolvent Companies (Reports on Conduct of Directors) (Scotland) Rules 2016 numbered 2016 No. 185 (S. 1) . In Northern Ireland , delegated legislation
102-506: Is organised into statutory rules , rather than statutory instruments. In the Republic of Ireland the term "statutory instrument" is given a much broader meaning than under the UK legislation. Under the Statutory Instruments Act 1947 a statutory instrument is defined as being "an order, regulation, rule, scheme or bye-law made in exercise of a power conferred by statute". However, only certain statutory instrument are published and numbered by
119-642: Is the 714th statutory instrument in the UK series and 171st in the Wales subseries. In Scotland , statutory instruments made by the Scottish Government were governed by the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 following devolution until the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 came into force. Unlike Wales Statutory Instruments, Scottish Statutory Instruments are not published as
136-458: The 2016 EU membership referendum and the subsequent publication of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill , there has been concern that its powers enabling ministers to issue statutory instruments under the bill may enable the government to bypass Parliament. Although this has been criticised by some as being undemocratic, draft regulations must be "laid before" Parliament, which may always demand
153-571: The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license . In addition, a series of books was published, each presenting the highlights of one of the surveys. As of 2017, 33 volumes were published. Another surveying project of the NIAH focuses on historic gardens and designed landscapes. These surveys started by comparing the 19th-century maps of the Ordnance Survey against aerial photography and were followed by on-site evaluations. In June 2009,
170-733: The Stationery Office , this being mostly where the statute enabling the enactment of delegated legislation required that any such legislation be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas . Two close equivalents of similar operation are Similarly to the United Kingdom, national and state/provincial governments in Australia and Canada also call their delegated legislation statutory instruments. Canada uses statutory instruments for proclamations by
187-538: The Irish Free State, there was a Minister for Local Government as part of the first Executive Council of the Irish Free State established in 1922. The Department of Local Government and Public Health was given a statutory basis by the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 . This act provided it with: the administration and business generally of public services in connection with local government, public health, relief of
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#1732858702736204-593: The NIAH won the Europa Nostra Award for this project. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage ( Irish : An Roinn Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta ) is a department of the Government of Ireland . It is led by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage . The official headquarters and ministerial offices of
221-716: The branches and officers of the public service specified in the Third Part of the Schedule to this Act, and of which Department the head shall be, and shall be styled, an t-Aire Rialtais Aitiúla agus Sláinte Puiblí or (in English) the Minister for Local Government and Public Health. It also assigned it with the following agencies: Over the years the name and functions of the department have changed several times by means of statutory instruments . Statutory instrument In many countries,
238-569: The department are in The Custom House , Dublin. The departmental team consists of the following: The official headquarters and ministerial offices of the department are in The Custom House , Dublin 1 . The department is responsible for, among other matters: In the Ministry of Dáil Éireann in the Irish Republic (1919–22), a Ministry of Local Government was established on 2 April 1919. In
255-489: The poor, care of the insane (including insane criminals), health insurance, elections to each House of the Oireachtas, elections to local bodies and authorities, registration of voters, maintenance of public roads, and highways, registration of births, deaths and marriages, and vital statistics and all powers, duties and functions connected with the same, and shall include in particular the business, powers, duties and functions of
272-598: The responsibility to maintain records of protected structures (RPS) to the planning authorities, leaving the role to identify and document significant objects of architectural heritage to NIAH. Surveying started in 1991 and focused first on towns. Clare was the first county to perform a county survey. Each building covered by one of the surveys is rated on a scale that includes the values "record only", "local", "regional", "national", and "international" where usually objects of at least regional significance are considered for protection. In 2001, then minister Síle de Valera used
289-486: The result of these surveys to recommend the inclusion of 2,155 buildings in the record of protected structures by the respective planning authorities. As a full survey of the entire country using the same approach as for the town surveys was assumed to take more than 100 years, it was decided to begin with interim county surveys that focused on buildings with at least of regional significance. The surveys were published on CD-ROMs and online. The dataset has been published under
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