Conor McGuinness (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans he and his Department have in place to address the capacity issues affective storage of priceless historic artefacts and archives, including the risk that current rental storage space will soon no longer be available; the engagement he has had with the National Archives, National Museum of Ireland, and other bodies in relation to this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6981/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The responsibility for the provision of suitable buildings for the storage of the national collections lies with the Office of Public Works and the Department of Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport, which has responsibility for the National Cultural Institutions referenced. I can confirm, however, that a new twenty year lease has recently been agreed for the Cultural Resource Centre referred to. The care of the national collections is under the remit of each of the individual National Cultural Institutions. The National Monuments Service and the National Museum of Ireland continue to engage closely on various matters of shared responsibility under the National Monuments Act 1930 to 2014, in particular the management of material discovered as a result of development-led archaeology and its associated archives.