Pat Deering
Question:249. Deputy Pat Deering asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount his Department spent on each of the 14 national monuments in County Carlow in each of the years 2012 to 2016. [37519/17]
View answerMonday, 11 September 2017
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The Office of Public Works care for fourteen National Monuments in County Carlow. The sites are visited on a regular basis by OPW workstaff and general maintenance is undertaken as necessary.
The frequency of visits is dependent on the type of structure and its location eg, Agade is visited on a bi-annual basis while those sites where grass-cutting is required or are situated nearer areas of denser population (where usage levels are higher) are visited on a more regular basis. There are no concerns in relation to the condition of the National Monuments in the Carlow area and as such, it was not necessary to undertake conservation works at these sites in the years referred to by the Deputy.
General maintenance costs are not broken down on a site-by-site basis as this work is undertaken the direct workforce of the Kilkenny National Monuments Depot and is a charge on that Depots operational budget. Therefore, it is not possible to provide a breakdown as requested by Mr Deering.