Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, which I know he has raised before. Deputy Carey has also been briefing me on it in the past couple of weeks. It is a good thing Clare County Council is agreeing to take on these heritage sites. They will need money because work needs to be done on those sites and we want to bring them up to standard. There is a process ongoing to resolve this. I am not personally across it, so I do not know whether the right thing to do at this stage is to appoint an arbitrator or not. However, I do understand that this has been going on for a long time and that it has been bounced through different public bodies and that is not a satisfactory situation. I will look into it again and we will try to get to a resolution sooner rather than later.

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