Ms Virginia Teehan:

It is good because we work a lot with colleagues in the planning and housing divisions. The last time I was here was to talk about the town centre first policy and the collaborative town centre health check programme, and they also reside in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. We work with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media as well. That is a big part of what we do and we have good relationships. A lot of our work stems from what happens on the ground and those relationships grow on the ground. We are fortunate in that the heritage division in the Department as it is now situated, fits in with the disciplines around it and our resources have increased considerably in this new situation. All heritage provision is complementary to the wider work of the housing divisions and local authorities, which are a big part of this Bill. The Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O’Brien and the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, work directly with the Heritage Council and have direct engagements with us reasonably regularly, which is testament to their commitment to heritage and to their rate of work, which is good.