Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 277: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she will confirm the allocation of funding for 2009 and for 2010 in respect of a facility (details supplied) in County Mayo. [21348/10]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will be aware the National Museum of Ireland operates across four sites, one of which is the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co. Mayo. My Department provides funding to the National Museum of Ireland as a single entity and not on a site by site basis. The funding provided by my Department to the National Museum in 2009 and 2010 is as set out below:

The National Museum of Ireland became an autonomous non-commercial semi-state body under the terms of the National Cultural Institutions Act 1997 with effect from May 2005. The Board of the Museum is responsible for all operational matters relating to the institution, and I, as Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, do not have a statutory function in respect of operational matters. It is, therefore, a matter for the Board of the Museum to allocate resources as it deems appropriate.