Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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707. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a decision to provide an extra €1.5 million of State funding, over and above the €6 million previously announced by her predecessor in Dáil Éireann on 22 October 2013, for Limerick City of Culture was taken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26009/15]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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An allocation of €6m was made in Budget 2014 to Limerick City of Culture. By letter dated 25 November 2014, Limerick City and County Council applied for an additional amount of €1.5m. Following consultation with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the identification of possible savings on Vote 33, my Department applied for and received sanction for virement of up to €1.5m to Subhead A.14 National City of Culture. In the event, savings of just over €1.1m materialised and this amount was applied to the initiative in December 2014.