Enda Kenny
Ceist:560 Mr. Kenny asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands the number of permanent and temporary employees at the Knocksink Wood Nature Reserve Education Centre and the Killarney National Park Education Centre; the amount awarded by contract in each case in respect of each of the past two contracts; the number of visitors recorded to each education centre for the past three years; if she will provide a breakdown of these numbers into school going population, non-school going population, numbers of Irish visitors and numbers of overseas visitors; the plans, if any, she has to extend the education centre concept to the remaining and proposed national parks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20970/98]