Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Question 72: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 6 March 2012, the steps being taken to take into State ownership Haroldstown Dolmen in County Carlow. [14699/12]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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The Haroldstown Dolmen is included in the statutory Record of Monuments and Places and, as such, is protected under the National Monuments Acts.

Because of resource implications, the State is only ever in a position to acquire, maintain and conserve a relatively small number of heritage properties and monuments. My Department makes such acquisitions from time to time in exceptional circumstances as resources permit and in line with their archaeological, architectural, historical or other special significance. There are no proposals to acquire any such properties at present.