Written answers
Wednesday, 5 March 2008
Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
National Museum
9:00 pm
Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 266: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if there are proposals to open a famine museum as part of the National Museum to commemorate the millions of Irish people who died in the Great Famine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9599/08]
Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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Since the National Museum of Ireland became an autonomous statutory body under the National Cultural Institutions Act, 1997 on 3rd May 2005, the Board of the National Museum is statutorily responsible for operational matters concerning exhibitions of the Museum's collections. Any decision, therefore, to commemorate the victims of the Famine within the campus of the National Museum of Ireland is a matter for that organisation.
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