Ms Katherine Licken:

I apologise to Deputy Carroll MacNeill. I was having difficulty turning off the mute button on the mic. I will ask my colleague, Mr. Falvey, to come in on this in a moment. We have a large cultural infrastructure programme of €460 million for the development of cultural institutions. Thankfully, none of those projects were in construction phase during Covid. The National Library of Ireland is in the investigative works stage. It decanted all of the books out of the dangerous area to which the Vice Chair referred that was a risk to the books. They were decanted to another part of the library. The investigative works are ongoing but those works were delayed because of the restrictions on construction, but there was not a construction contract, as such, in place there.

Is Deputy Carroll MacNeill thinking about capital projects? A lot of the initiatives and performances abroad that we were to fund under Culture Ireland did not happen because of the restrictions.