Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the attention of his Department has been drawn to the deteriorating status of the ruins of Tyone Abbey, Tyone, Nenagh, County Tipperary; if his Department has had any engagement with local landowners, the Office of Public Works, or Tipperary County Council in relation to the surveying or preservation of the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5545/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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While Tyone Abbey is a national monument in private ownership, the owners may make an application for funding under the Community Monuments Fund grant scheme of the National Monuments Service of my Department. The Community Monuments Fund was established in 2020 to provide investment in Ireland’s archaeological heritage. This funding is prioritised for local authorities, private owners and custodians and community groups for the care, conservation, maintenance, protection and promotion of archaeological monuments that are included in the Record of Monuments and Places under the National Monuments Act 1930 (as amended) and archaeological monuments that are identified in the Sites and Monuments Record which is compiled by the National Monuments Service of my Department.

Applications can be made by local authorities for works to monuments in public ownership where a clear heritage focus and community or public benefit has been demonstrated and projects proposed by a local authority on foot of applications from private applicants who are the owners or custodians of monuments. The closing date for applications for the 2023 round of grant funding is 14 February 2023.

Total funding available nationally for projects under the Community Monuments Fund 2023 is €6 million.

Further details on the Fund can be found on my Department’s website at the following link:

www.gov.ie/en/publication/bd7d6-community-monuments-fund-2023-call-for-projects/