Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)

It is. I am sure the Chairman and all the members, as well the Minister of State and I, would be parochial with regard to this. There is no arts installation, for instance, between Limerick and Tralee. While there are some fabulous national cultural institutions we are investing very heavily in, like the archives, the library, the National Museum and the Crawford in Cork, we have in the programme for Government a commitment for a small-scale arts capital scheme. We are looking at animating that at the moment with the Department of public expenditure and reform as part of our budgetary discussions. I hope we will achieve a lot over the lifetime of this Government and my term as the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport. On the work we have done in the Department with regard to sport, I am a former Minister of State with responsibility for sport as well as being a constituency TD and I know exactly the impact that has because it takes an awful lot of the load-bearing off volunteers and places it on the shoulders of the Exchequer, which is only right, especially with the development of community-based facilities. We are going to look to do something similar for the arts.