John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have another question, which the Minister of State can come back to me on if he wishes. The OPW has so many historic buildings. I spoke in the Dáil today about the interest in having a centre of excellence for Norman history, the study of the Norman period and, associated with that, a Norman museum. Is the OPW open to proposals around something like that, which would involve the use of one of its historic buildings? This is in order to enhance the education around that period in all these buildings we have standing that people visit, to give them that sense of history, where it all happened and how it all came about, and that experience of a Norman museum to create and feed into the tourism industry.