Seanad debates
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
National Lottery: Motion
5:00 pm
Michael D'Arcy (Fine Gael)
It has not been available since 2008. Today, the funds or moneys go mainly to the HSE and the Department of Health. We have a choice to try to build the children's hospital. This is one funding aspect. Can we do it? When the tenders come back we will see within a matter of months how much money is to be returned under the tender and licensing arrangements. We are not shutting down the RTE concert orchestra or selling the National Gallery. Reference was made to sales in the area of the arts. We are not selling the Book of Kells. No one has mentioned that. Anyway, I do not imagine the State owns it; it probably belongs to Trinity College.
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