Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein)
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304. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of rent the OPW has collected from external agencies to have a café-restaurant service in each heritage site under the remit of the OPW in 2023; and when the contract for each of these services is due to expire, by location, in tabular form. [12963/24]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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The table below shows total revenue received by OPW in 2023 from concession fees paid from private businesses operating a Tearoom/Café/ Restaurant Concession on OPW National Historical Properties and National Monument sites broken down by county as agreed with the Deputy's office.

A breakdown by site is provided below with contract expiration dates. It should be noted that in 2023 National Historical Properties along with the Chief State Solicitors Office carried out extensive work on the suite of documents to be used for future Concession Tenders. The preparation of updated tender documents to be used for future tenders was time consuming. As a result some concessionaires have remained in place pending the running of new tenders. The OPW has put in place additional staffing to administer the new concession arrangements and it is planned that new tenders will issue in Q2 this year. This will facilitate continuity of service until the outcome of the new tenders.