Economic Value of Ireland's Historic Environment - The Heritage ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

3.4 Strategic Summary: Scope of Ireland's Historic Environment Ireland's built historic environment comprises a wide range of assets, and is broad in terms of its geographical reach. Flagship assets including Ireland's two World Heritage Sites, more than 20 Historic National Properties in State Care, and over 700 Recorded National Monuments. Other distinctive components include around 6,000 Designed Landscapes, and 38,000 Protected Structures. The scope of Ireland's historic environment extends beyond these identified structures and sites and assets, however. Architectural Conservation Areas cover a range of historic townscapes, whilst a great number of buildings not formally designated under Government legislation, nonetheless make an important contribution to the historic environment. For example, it has been estimated that there are around 175,000 buildings in Ireland that were constructed prior to 1919, many of which are maintained using traditional building materials and craft-based labour skills. The majority of historic environment assets in Ireland are privately owned and receive no public assistance for their management and maintenance. The ability of private owners to invest sufficiently in the maintenance of historic buildings, sites and places is likely to be crucial to the long-term management of the historic environment. The Department for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is the principal government department with overall responsibility for Ireland's national heritage. Core heritage organisations, including the Heritage Council, OPW, local authorities and Fáilte Ireland, playing a strategic role in managing, conserving and facilitating public access to Ireland's historic environment. In defining the 'historic environment' for purposes of economic analysis, this study focuses on those organisations responsible for conserving, maintaining and presenting assets associated with Ireland's built historic environment. Although there are clearly areas of crossover, assets more closely associated with the natural and cultural elements of the historic environment have not been included within the parameters of this study. 16
4 Economic Impact of Ireland's Historic Environment This section of the report focuses on the specific nature of operations and activities attributable to Ireland's historic environment sector, and presents the results of our analytical work in the form of an economic impact assessment of the historical environment on the national economy. Our impact assessment is structured around three principal components: (1) economic activity corresponding to core organisations comprising the 'inner wheel' of the historic environment sector; (2) the built heritage repair and maintenance sector; and (3) expenditure resulting from tourists attracted to Ireland principally because of the historic environment. For the purposes of compiling the impact assessment we have deliberately adopted a conservative approach to the estimation of economic values, with this intended to further enhance the robustness and reliability of selected inputs and underlying assumptions. 4.1 Approach to Impact Assessment The impact assessment is directed at establishing estimates for the aggregate level of economic activity attributable to the historic environment in respect of the Irish economy overall. This process entails developing estimates of the direct (initial) impact as well as associated multiplier (indirect/ induced) impacts: Direct impact – refers to direct expenditure and associated employment by organisations within the 'inner wheel' of the historic environment sector; built heritage repair and maintenance expenditure relating to historic environment assets; and, expenditure by tourists who have been attracted to Ireland principally because of its historic environment. Indirect impact – refers to purchases of inputs made by firms that are supplying goods and services to the 'inner wheel' of the historic environment sector; the built heritage construction sector; and, organisations associated with tourism, including hotels and restaurants. Induced impact – refers to those benefits which accrue in the Irish economy as a result of increased income and spending by people who work in the historic environment sector 'inner wheel'; the built heritage construction sector; and, tourism sector, together with those businesses that supply goods and services to these sectors. A schematic representation of the modelling framework adopted for the impact analysis is presented in Figure 4.1 (below). 17
Page 1 and 2: Economic Value of Ireland's Histori
Page 3 and 4: 5.3 The Role of the Historic Enviro
Page 5 and 6: 9.4 Economic Benefits .............
Page 7 and 8: Study Approach Principal components
Page 9 and 10: Within the context of Ireland's eco
Page 11 and 12: 1 Introduction Ecorys 3 , in partne
Page 13 and 14: Figure 1.1 Economic Impact Model: S
Page 15 and 16: 2 Importance of Heritage In this se
Page 17 and 18: There are few authoritative interna
Page 19 and 20: environment should rightly be seen
Page 21 and 22: Asset Type Description/ Characteris
Page 23 and 24: Organisation Remit Key Policies and
Page 25: The protection of the architectural
Page 29 and 30: Expenditure by the sector's 'inner
Page 31 and 32: employment coefficients 29 . Compos
Page 33 and 34: Table 4.4 Important Factors in Cons
Page 35 and 36: In terms of national income, this t
Page 37 and 38: Fundamentally, there is also a pote
Page 39 and 40: difficult to attribute the precise
Page 41 and 42: The maintenance and repair of histo
Page 43 and 44: 6.2 Economic Impact of Ireland's Hi
Page 45 and 46: Further to this point, the evidence
Page 47 and 48: sub-national disaggregation of rele
Page 49 and 50: 1 Waterford Viking Triangle 1.1 The
Page 51 and 52: Although not directly related to th
Page 53 and 54: 1.1 Management and Activities The I
Page 55 and 56: 67% in 2007, business has started t
Page 57 and 58: 3 Birr Castle Demesne 3.1 The Asset
Page 59 and 60: • Normal day trippers who buy a d
Page 61 and 62: 4.2 Management and Activities Brú
Page 63 and 64: 5 Kilmainham Gaol 5.1 The Asset Kil
Page 65 and 66: 5.5 Other Socio-Economic Benefits A
Page 67 and 68: The involvement of the farmers them
Page 69 and 70: 7 Westport 7.1 The Asset Westport
Page 71 and 72: tourist industry) and “Destinatio
Page 73 and 74: 8 Fota House 8.1 The Asset Under th
Page 75 and 76: The principal direct economic benef
Page 77 and 78:
promotion of the facilities, althou
Page 79 and 80:
10 Muckross House 10.1 The Asset Mu
Page 81 and 82:
10.5 Other Socio-Economic Benefits
Page 83 and 84:
Technical Notes: Economic Impact Me
Page 85 and 86:
most recent available Census data (
Page 87 and 88:
Survey work undertaken by Fáilte I
Page 89 and 90:
Annex Three: List of Consultees A42
Page 91 and 92:
Name Organisation Kevin Baird Irish
Page 93 and 94:
Annex Four: Glossary of Technical T
show all

Economic Value of Ireland's Historic Environment - The Heritage ...

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?