Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Kevin Moran (Longford-Westmeath, Independent)
First of all, all our heritage sites are seeing significant numbers. I suppose it is down to the fact that a lot of people want to see the heritage. A lot of people are turning back to it. Last year alone, we had 15 million visitors to our heritage sites. When they talk about tourism being down, this is a huge stepping stone in the right direction. We can even grow further.
We spend a lot of money in our sites and keep them up to date. We also have good guides. We have good staff. I suppose where you have that, people tend to go there. In particular, tourists of all ages like to see that. We have seen major improvement over the years but the growth in numbers is particularly welcome.
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