Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have some questions for the witnesses. Senator Boyhan spoke about the amount of work our heritage officers and the Heritage Council do and the number of different aspects of heritage in which they are involved. I thought I knew about the work of the Heritage Council from my work as a councillor over the years. In advance of this meeting I visited the council's website and I came across a number of projects and other works that it is doing. I am fairly sure that the majority of people do not know about all of the work that is being done by the Heritage Council. I did not know about it. I probably should have known about it. The witnesses have heard the interest members have in heritage and in the importance of it. How do we engage more with people? How do we pull more people into this space? How do we create more interest, appreciation and understanding, as well as support, all of those aspects of heritage? Will the council's next strategy and plan identify that?