Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On Friday, Clare County Council will have its annual budgetary meeting. Its budgetary year does not align fully with the Government's budgetary year because local authorities and the Government have different budgetary years. Clare County Council is facing into 2023 not knowing whether it will be the custodian of the Shannon Heritage sites. This matter is a large component of the Minister of State's Department. It is the Government's wish, as agreed in the summer of 2020, that the sites transfer to local authorities. Is this accounted for in the 2023 Estimates and what can the Minister of State tell us about a funding mechanism to allow the transfer to happen successfully?