Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It is important to have as broad a range of exhibits as possible. Not everybody has the money to leave the country. From a citizen’s perspective but also from a tourist’s perspective, the more vibrant our cultural institutions are, the better. Surveys by Fáilte Ireland show that a significant number of people come here for a cultural offering. Have there been exhibits that we have not been able to accommodate? What prompted this change?

We have some very good exhibition spaces. There is a major development due at the National Archives of Ireland for warehousing and retrieval of the archive. Will the space proposed there be sufficient to display what will probably be small objects? What does the Minister anticipate the cost of the indemnity will be?