Ms Shirley Clerkin:

I am not suggesting that we should come under the other Department. I am merely raising as a possible reason the section has not been expanded in recent years that we are not so obvious when the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government is checking indicators for different sections from within local authorities; they have sufficient indicators in and around heritage services, and we are not noticed.

I mentioned the assistant heritage officer programme because we absolutely raised it with the Heritage Council board and obviously the Heritage Council, because their budget was effectively not increased. They would need an increase in their budget to provide that support to us and the local authorities. I think that model has worked very well and that is the way that model should continue.

Conservation officers, for people who do not know, work within local authorities specifically with structures that are protected under the Planning and Development Act, formerly known as listed buildings. These are structures from 1700 onwards. Conservation officers primarily work within the planning sphere, dealing with exempted developments, section 57 declarations and that type of thing and do not really engage with communities in the same way we do. They primarily work within planning, although there would be some overlap, but it is a different role entirely. It is not community focused, it is focused on the building itself.

Did I cover all of the questions? The Deputy mentioned a lot of things there.