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Other Questions: National Monuments (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 10 and 15 together. Nos. 14 to 17 Moore Street are the subject of a preservation order under the National Monuments Acts. The effect of the preservation order is that any works affecting these properties require my consent, as Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, under section 14 of the National Monuments Act 1930 as amended. The...

Other Questions: National Monuments (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: It is well known that the entire site is under the remit of NAMA. I am awaiting the environmental impact assessment, which I hope to receive in the near future. As regards a plan and vision, planning permission for this site has been granted by Dublin City Council and confirmed by An Bord Pleanála. I understand there were no objections to the planning application to Dublin City...

Other Questions: National Museum (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I can advise the Deputy that my Department has recently received approval from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to fill the post of director of the National Museum of Ireland and this news has been communicated to the chair of the National Museum of Ireland.

Other Questions: National Museum (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: It goes through the normal process. Over the past 16 months, I have appointed new directors of the Arts Council and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, as well as directors of the National Concert Hall and National Gallery of Ireland. Overall, I have appointed a large number of directors, all of whom are new, very energetic people who bring a lot of new ideas into the national cultural...

Other Questions: National Museum (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: Absolutely. I might add that Dr. Pat Wallace and I have been personal friends for many years, probably for the past 30 years or more. While he has been a major loss to the museum, I am delighted his book on Wood Quay will be published shortly. Obviously, he took the incentive to retire from the job earlier than was necessary but I am delighted it probably has given him more time to finish...

Other Questions: National Museum (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I hope so. However, it will be especially welcome, given that 2014 also will mark the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf.

Other Questions: National Museum (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: This will depend on what budget the Department will have. I note huge improvements were made over the previous ten years but, unfortunately, as is evident in the Estimates, there has been a dramatic reduction since 2008 in the funding made available to the national cultural institutions. However, I am very much aware of the importance of providing funding for improvements. There may be...

Other Questions: National Museum (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: We are making progress.

Other Questions: Arts Funding (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: My Department does not operate schemes to make operational funding available to groups involved in the performance of the arts. As the Deputy is aware, primary responsibility for funding for the arts rests with the Arts Council. The council is independent in its decision-making process. Details of the council's successful applicants are available on the Council's website, as well as the...

Other Questions: Arts Funding (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: The previous Government funded a programme in America called Imagine Ireland with this point in mind. It took place last year and was highly successful. In places such as Manhattan, San Francisco, right across America and all over the world, it certainly served to repair the damage done to the image of Ireland because of the collapse of our banking system. All Members are aware that our...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: It is simply not true the majority of turf cutters continue to break the law. We received 2,400 applications for compensation or relocation or for the supply of turf. To date, 1,461 payments have been made, 58 deliveries have been made and there is general compliance across the country. I thank many Deputies in this House for encouraging their neighbours to comply with the law. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: There are other questions relating to bogs coming up that will allow the Deputy the opportunity to ask further questions.

Other Questions: National Archives (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I refer the Deputy to my reply to today's Priority Question No. 1. The Government announced a series of rationalisation measures in the public service reform plan, which was published on 17 November 2011. A number of the measures announced related to certain national cultural institutions, funded from my Department's Vote group, and these are currently being progressed, as required under...

Other Questions: National Archives (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I was delighted Professor Ferriter did not resign from the Archives Commission because he has so much to offer and is a well respected historian. I have set up an expert group to look at the decade of commemorations and he has continued to work on that group and his services are very important. Senator Mac Conghail had a motion on this topic in the Seanad but I ask all these people to...

Other Questions: National Archives (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: The process was undertaken on the advice of Government; it was a Government direction outlined in the programme for Government. The Department set up a reform unit and a reform committee and took the entire process very seriously. A vast amount of consultation was carried out by people who have been dealing with these national cultural institutions for the past 20 years in many cases and who...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Turbary Rights (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: The motion relating to raised bog special areas of conservation, SAC, agreed unanimously by Dáil Éireann on 7 March this year, called on the Government to “engage actively with the European Commission to seek a resolution within the terms of the Habitats Directive, and to prepare and submit a National Raised Bog Restoration Plan to the Commission as a matter of urgency”....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cultural Policy (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: Dublin is, certainly, vibrant at present and this is driven by our cultural institutions. I suggest the Deputy walk along Kildare Street and see the large numbers going into the National Museum and the National Library. If she ventures beyond Kildare Street, she will see that our cultural institutions are thriving at present. I am sure some of the young people who are in the Visitors...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cultural Policy (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: I am a Deputy from Kerry, the periphery of the country. We are doing well out of culture and we sell it well in Kerry.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Cultural Policy (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: However, more than a million tourists visited the National Museum last year and there will be more visitors this year. Whatever we are doing to support and promote our cultural institutions must be working, to some extent.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hare Coursing (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Deenihan: The control of live hare coursing, including the operation of individual coursing meetings and managing the use of hares for that activity, is carried out under the Greyhound Industry Act 1958, which is the responsibility of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Hare coursing is administered by the Irish Coursing Club, which is a body set up under the Greyhound Industry Act...