Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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51. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding provided to the National Archives of Ireland in each year since 2016; the reason the funding was provided in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34009/20]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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The allocations made available to the National Archives from the Vote of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media are set out in the table below.Staff of the National Archives, are staff of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and are therefore paid from the administrative budget pay subhead of the Department which is not included in the table below. As stated below the B3 funding is a payment to match resources generated by the National Archives. The B4 amounts are to cover the general expenses of the National Archives and the National Archives Advisory Council,

I am also pleased to confirm that the €24million redevelopment project for the Archival Repository is now at tender stage and it is planned that work will commence on the construction work shortly. Work has already been carried out in decanting the existing Archive to offsite storage and other preparatory work has also commenced.

In addition the National Archives received €198,022.92 for upgrade Capital works at its Bishop Street headquarters carried out by the OPW separate to the redevelopment project and €120,000 towards a digitisation project in conjunction with the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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52. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff employed by the National Archives of Ireland in each year since 2016; if there are positions that remain to be filled; if so, the number; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34010/20]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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I am informed that my Department's HR records show that the number of staff employed at the National Archives in each year since 2016 was as set out below:

My Department is currently reviewing it's workforce planning in the context of it's changed remit and available resources. Appropriate staffing of the NAI is being reviewed as part of this exercise.