Tony McLoughlin (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In respect of Lissadell House, the Minister is quite right about the Cassidy-Walsh family and the amount of investment it has put into the house, which is the Gore-Booth family home and has associations with Countess Markievicz and W. B. Yeats. My question concerned additional grants for such houses. This is a house that is being lived in. Nine members of the Cassidy-Walsh family live in it at the moment. It is a certainly a huge tourist attraction in the north west and it is vitally important that funding be made available and that when people are prepared to invest they be encouraged by the Department in respect of additional funding.