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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Archaeological Sites (19 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: While the famine graveyard in Abbeystrewry is protected under the National Monuments Acts 1930-2004, it is not in my ownership or guardianship, as Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and, therefore, neither my Department nor the Office of Public Works is responsible for its conservation, repair or maintenance. I understand, however, that Cork County Council is currently examining...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (19 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: Details of this funding for 2013 for my Department's (Votes 34 and 35) and the previous years are available in the Revised Estimates for Public Services published on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform at www.per.gov.ie. My Department's expenditure in the current year was also debated extensively at the Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht on 9th of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Archaeological Sites (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I am aware of the reported archaeological find at Drumholm graveyard on foot of recent excavations carried out under licences issued by my Department under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2004. The licenses relate to investigations associated with an application to Donegal County Council under the planning Acts for an extension to the graveyard and the provision of a new vehicular...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Archaeological Sites (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I agree with the Deputy that this is a major discovery. The connection with St. Columba is also very important. Whatever expertise and professional resources the Department has at its disposal will be made available. I am looking forward to the deliberations on the site. I hope the significant excitement and expectations about the site will be fully realised and that the site will be of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: Farmers in the Twelve Bens-Garraun and Maumturk mountain complex special areas of conservation have had to amend their farming practices since November 2008 to ensure these mountain commonage areas recover from past overgrazing. This grazing restriction continues until November 2013 and will assist farmers in ensuring their lands are deemed to be in good agricultural and environmental...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I will consult with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney. I suggest the Deputy does so himself. This matter has been considered by my Department but there is no funding available to make an interim payment. We have been generous in the past. If the moneys were available, I would be delighted to provide interim payments. I have met the farmers affected,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I must operate within the legislation.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: In response to Deputy McLellan, I have no problem whatsoever in meeting with the stakeholders. I have already had numerous meetings with them and the decision I came to was welcomed by the relatives of those involved in 1916 and indeed, was universally welcomed. I must repeat that the planning permission process is the responsibility of Dublin City Council. My role in this, as I have said...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: Certain parts of the street which are in private ownership are in obvious need of upgrading. Dublin City Council has a key role to play in that respect, in terms of ensuring that happens. I assure the Deputies that in my capacity as chairman of the decade of commemorations committee I will do everything possible to make progress on this matter. One project that we can advance, hopefully, is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I understand Chartered Land has sought a meeting with me. I will facilitate that immediately. What happens between Chartered Land and NAMA is very much up to those to parties and I obviously cannot get involved. I have had two meetings with the specialist sub-committee of Dublin City Council, whose members are very proactive on this project. What I gave permission for was very much what...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tourism Projects Funding (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: My responsibility is to designate certain special areas of conservation to protect seals, which I do, as a result of which they are protected in habitats where they typically live. However, I do not have responsibility for the rehabilitation of seals. I suggest that the council might be the appropriate body to promote the project and develop it in conjunction with local people and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 9, 24 and 38 together. The national monument at Nos. 14 to 17 Moore Street is the subject of a preservation order under the National Monuments Acts. The effect of the preservation order is that any works affecting the site require my consent, as Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, under section 14 of the National Monuments Act 1930, as amended. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tourism Projects Funding (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8, 715 and 716 together. My Department has not made any commitment regarding the development of a maritime museum and seal rehabilitation facility in Balbriggan and does not have funding available to assist this particular project. While I appreciate the work carried out by the Irish Seal Sanctuary, it should be noted that my responsibilities under the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tourism Projects Funding (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I do not dispute the Deputy's comments about the merits of this project, but my Department has no role in the provision of funding for this type of project. Other Departments may have and it should be noted that the Deputy's question was transferred to my Department from another Department. We have a responsibility for the protection of seals, but we are not responsible for their...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: City of Culture (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I have asked all the national cultural institutions to get involved and to provide and support programmes, and that alone would create a considerable amount of activity. As regards my support, the people of Limerick are very much aware of that. This was my idea, I suppose, and I must ensure it works. If that includes making a commitment for finance then that is what will happen, but I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: City of Culture (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: Limerick's designation as City of Culture for 2014 will deliver a programme of cultural events and engagement in arts and culture by the citizens of Limerick and beyond. In bringing artists, arts organisations, local authorities and civic groups in the city and county together in a calendar of events that will showcase all that the city has to offer, the initiative will generate a legacy...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: City of Culture (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I announced the designation in 2012 and requested that a cultural programme be drawn up. I requested that it be inclusive and include the local community as much as possible, especially in places like Moyross, South Hill and Galvone and other parts of Limerick. I also requested that it include all arts organisations in Limerick, the university, Mary Immaculate College and Limerick Institute...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I have been asked a lot of supplementary questions here in the Dáil but this is certainly the most complicated type of question I have been asked. To reply to the Deputy, what is happening at this time is exactly what he sought here in his Private Members' motion way back in March of last year.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: We appointed the consultants, RPS, who are now going out consulting with people. Nothing will happen on any of these bogs without full consultation with the local population. All we are asking here is that, when RPS go out to talk to the bog owners and, obviously, to the contractors also, there would be full engagement with them. Flooding may not be the appropriate term. It is, I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: There is no question of flooding people's land. People should not be scared about this. I do not want anyone going out and scaremongering that there is going to be flooding of lands. The commitment we have given is that there will be regeneration and restoration of bogs and this will be done in full consultation with the local community - the people who own plots on the bogs or have...