Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for that detailed response on behalf of the senior Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin. I encourage all of our political and public representatives and staff in these Houses to visit these institutions, many of which surround this site. We can then have more champions for these projects and for the work of the institutions. I wonder how recent announcements around inflation, and such Government announcements around paying 70% of inflation costs, affect these projects or our national cultural institutions. I will read the Minister of State's response in more detail over a lengthier period but I welcome the fact that 2023 seems to be a key year for these projects.

On many of the sites and the business cases for them that the Department is currently reviewing, does the Department have the resources for these? This is a very significant investment and I wonder whether the Department has sufficient resources to deal with these projects, because time is of the essence and inflation is only going in one direction. Promises, as I have said, have been made to the national cultural institutions in the past and I hope that the Government will keep every commitment that it makes.