Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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140. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the outstanding balance of unallocated funding for the 1916 commemorations. [36450/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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There is no unallocated balance of funding for the 1916 Commemorations.

The current underspend against profile within my Department's Vote has occurred principally because of delays in the drawdown of funding in respect of certain once-off Decade of Centenary capital projects. These are part of the ‘Permanent Reminders’ component of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme.

These projects include Richmond Barracks, the new cultural centre at Pearse’s Cottage at Ros Muc and the Tenement Museum in Henrietta Street. All of these are now either completed or very close to completion, and will take up all of their planned 2016 allocation by the end of this year. There were also unavoidable delays in some other cases - for example, the National Monument at 14-17 Moore Street and the major redevelopment at the National Archives. While some progress has been made on these projects, the full expected drawdown of funds will not now occur this year.