Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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There is and they are in the existing national development plan. Some have started and are well under way. The library project is started, as are the Crawford Art Gallery and the archives. I am not happy with the pace of these projects, to be quite honest. I have spoken to the Secretary General on this. We will have to see if there is a different mechanism to deliver them because it is taking far too long. The national cultural institutions and their patrons are quite right to be annoyed over the fact that these projects are taking longer than we thought. We had money in the previous national development plan. They should have been moved a lot further. We are relying on another State agency to do this work for us and we have not gone as far as we should have on their delivery.