Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Chairman is correct, but those who run many of the smaller museums will say the margin for sustainability is very small and that they cannot reach it. We are not talking about the Museum of Country Life in Castlebar which is a huge enterprise. We are talking about small places where young people who have no work or those participating in apprenticeship schemes, about which we are still talking, could avail of opportunities.

Small amounts of money are involved but there is not enough creative thinking going into it and it is not being ring-fenced for something like what Mr. Parsons is talking about and something like that in Straide. Some of these are really excellent. They are just not put up for the sake of it.