Ms Katherine Licken:

We have funding of €2.3 million going out mainly to our cultural institutions for digitisation, with €550,000 going to the National Gallery, €272,000 to the National Museum, €675,000 to the National Library, which is heavily involved in digitisation, €284,000 to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, and €200,000 to the Chester Beatty Library, which just launched its digitised collection. This makes it less of a Dublin cultural institution and opens it up to the rest of the country and the rest of the world.

The National Archives received €120,000. Everybody is aware of what we did with the census data and the major success that was, apart from preserving what is there. The Crawford Art Gallery in Cork received €18,000 for digitisation and the Church of Ireland representative church body library received €100,000. The Irish Traditional Music Archive received €100,000 and the Contemporary Music Centre received €20,000. All that funding was for digitisation and we are very alive to the importance of preserving the collections through digitisation, as well as through the structural works we are doing in the institutions.