Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the inadequate care being taken of the Quaker burial ground opposite Brú Chaoimhín on Cork Street, in view that the historic boundary walls are crumbling; his views on same; his plans to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33705/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department's National Monuments Service has been engaged with for some time with the Health Service Executive (HSE), as owner of the site, in relation to the HSE's proposals to undertake certain conservation works.

On foot of those discussions, also involving Dublin City Council, the HSE commissioned a condition assessment and conservation report of the graveyard last year. This accords with best practice as a first step in managing such a heritage site. A preliminary phase of conservation works is now planned with the assistance of funding under my Department's Built Heritage Investment Scheme.

I understand that a schedule of works for a procurement process for a more extensive conservation project is now also being drawn up by the HSE with a view to further grant funding being sought for these works.