Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans the Office of Public Works has to improve access and facilities including safe parking for buses, bicycles, ponies, traps and so on to the Dún Aengus site in Árann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11300/22]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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I can confirm that The Office of Public Works is advancing plans to refurbish the existing visitor centre at Dun Aonghusa.  The scheme include provision of new visitor interpretation of the monument, upgrading of ancillary facilities within the building and some landscaping works around the visitor centre. The wider project also provides for investment in new signage and interpretation at a number of historic sites on the island. 

With regard to the possible expansion of other facilities at the site, discussions are ongoing with regard to the acquisition of land adjacent to the visitor centre but this process has not yet reached a conclusion.