Library Projects
Dail Éireann — 2022-12-15
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Heather Humphreys (FG), Cavan-Monaghan

It was great that under the building acquisitions measure, some €300,000 was approved for Louth County Council to purchase the old Bank of Ireland building in Dunleer. Funding under the measure is for the purchase of derelict and vacant buildings. That money is only for the purchase of buildings, but if Louth County Council decides to develop the building into a library - the Deputy knows better than I do as he has raised this with me on several occasions - the council will need to make it a bit bigger. The door will be open in my Department in supporting the council through the libraries fund, which amounts to approximately €29 million and supports 17 projects, the My Open Library initiative and a smaller-scale capital works programme.

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Sitting date: 2022-12-15