Martin Mansergh (Tipperary South, Fianna Fail)

The policy decision is made by the Department concerned - in most of the cases we are discussing it is the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism - after which the Office of Public Works comes into play in terms of finding solutions, particularly space solutions and so on. A considerable amount of work has been done in the background in the past two or three years. The main issue, as with everything else, is funding.

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