The Office of Public Works is responsible for the conservation, maintenance, presentation and promotion of Ireland’s most iconic heritage properties, including Ireland’s two Unesco World Heritage Sites, 800 National Monuments, 32 National Historic Properties and over 5,000 acres of gardens and parklands.
The care of the estate is delivered through a variety of ways and means including conservation and maintenance works delivered directly through our operational workforce, the presentation of our sites through the OPW Guide Service and where required, the procurement of suitably qualified third-party contractors to undertake particular tasks.
Given the variety of maintenance duties and the number of locations concerned, for the purposes of reporting, the OPW does not record specific definitions of all maintenance tasks required at sites and is therefore not in a position to provide the exact level of detail requested by the Deputy.