Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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Question 105: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will be funding the Limerick County Council conservation grant scheme for 2011. [6998/11]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Due to a significant reduction in the budgetary allocation to the built heritage within the vote of my Department, the operation of the Local Authority Conservation Grants Scheme has been suspended. My Department is providing limited funding through a "Structures at Risk Fund" in 2011, to assist with works to safeguard structures protected under the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2010. Details of the operation of the fund have recently been issued to each local authority.

The Department proposes to undertake a review of the operation of Part IV (Architectural Heritage) of the Planning and Development Act 2000. This review will include an examination of the funding provided towards the conservation and protection of the architectural heritage.