Ms Lynn Scarff:

Ms Heaney has covered the key points. For our sector, it is really about mobility of collections rather than more buildings and about resources to enable the required conservation, the loan requirements and the security needs for the national collection to get out to museums around the country. It would be my ambition that no primary school child in Ireland would be more than 20 minutes' drive from his or her national collection. Doing that through our network of local museums and independent museums requires the resources for the conservation of items, security, transport and so on and putting things in place, such as a mobility of collections grant. There is one in place but it is just not sufficient for the demand put on it. It is about looking at this idea of a national strategy and policy and then properly building a resource and implementation plan around that. It is also about looking across the museum sector and thinking about where we are going overall and how we start to move the collection so that people can access it more.