Heritage Schemes
Seanad Éireann — 2026-02-04
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John Cummins (FG), Waterford

I will relay the Senator's comments to the Minister of State, Deputy O'Sullivan, and ask him to facilitate a meeting.
As the Senator will appreciate, and as I said in my initial response, the heritage unit in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has to focus on national monuments, heritage and archaeological elements as opposed to the agri-environmental scheme, which accounted for a significant chunk of the funding secured through the European just transition fund and the European Innovation Partnership. The Senator rightly pointed this out by way of a diagram provided to me before this debate.
I will take the points the Senator made back to the Department. In devising a scheme in the context of something that has been shown to have worked well, his feedback will be taken on board.

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