Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 11 May 2022
100. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that provide shelter and habitat space for wild species such as, but not limited to, insect hotels, bat boxes, nesting towers and beehives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23865/22]
View answerAs the Deputy will be aware, the provision of office accommodation for my Department, and for many of those bodies under the remit of the Department such as the national cultural institutions, falls within the remit of the Office of Public Works. A number of these buildings are protected structures.
Within that context I am pleased to advise that my Department's office at New Road Killarney has a roof garden that has been planted with wild flower seeds.
The operation of such policies in those bodies under the aegis of my department is a day-to-day matter for the body concerned.
