Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding

9:30 am

Ms Katherine Licken:

It is also a point from a cultural perspective. We are very minded as well of the cultural element. We remind the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage regularly that in new build of new communities, cultural infrastructure is also hugely important.

I was reminded by my colleague to remind the Deputy of our placenames branch, which looks at the placenames of Ireland and the historic origins of all placenames in Ireland. We have the Dúchas Project, which is the digitisation of the folklore collection, a great collection going back to the 1930s. Also, the Crowley bequest fund is a fund administered by the National Archives of Ireland. It was a bequest from Professor Francis Crowley and involves listing microfilms and publishing of the registered papers of the Chief Secretary's Office for the period 1818 to 1852. That might also be of interest.