Dinny McGinley (Donegal South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The level of funding available in 2013 from my Department’s Vote for the Heritage Council will be subject to the normal budgetary and Estimates processes, which may be necessarily constrained by the current difficult fiscal environment. The Minister, Deputy Deenihan, hopes to finalise any allocation to the Heritage Council as soon as possible, once final budgetary decisions are made. Of course, it will be a matter for the council to decide how its funding should be allocated across the range of research, education and conservation programmes it supports in future years, having regard to competing priorities for limited resources.

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