Public Consultation on the Draft Heritage Ireland 2030 Mid-Term Review (2026)

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is carrying out a mid-term review Heritage Ireland 2030, as promised in the strategy.

Heritage Ireland 2030 is Ireland’s national heritage plan. It is built on foundations that place heritage firmly at the centre of local and national spaces, places, stories and society. Under its three core themes of ‘Communities’, ‘Leadership’ and ‘Partnerships’, it sets out a shared set of goals to strengthen and protect Ireland’s heritage now and for the future.

The mid-term review of Heritage Ireland 2030 aims to ensure that the strategy, its goals, and the actions in its action plan are still relevant. The review process involved taking stock of changes since Heritage Ireland 2030 was published in 2022. It also involved taking stock of achievements across the sector since that time. We also looked ahead to see what priorities and issues for heritage may shape the roll-out of Heritage Ireland 2030 over its lifetime and beyond.

This public consultation on the results of the mid-term review is the final stage of the Heritage Ireland 2030 review process. We’ll use insights and information from the public consultation to develop a final version of the Heritage Ireland 2030 Mid-Term Review.

Once published, the final Heritage Ireland 2030 Mid-Term Review document will sit alongside and will be read together with the strategy. It will form the basis for annual reporting through its refreshed action plan. It will support and drive continued action under Heritage Ireland 2030 to strengthen, protect and celebrate heritage to the end of the decade and far beyond.

We welcome submissions from all interested parties.

The deadline for making submissions is 5pm on Friday, 15 May 2026.

In your feedback, we’d ask you to focus on the findings of the Heritage Ireland 2030 review, and on the strategy’s revised action plan. These have been set out in the Heritage Ireland 2030 Mid-Term Review Public Consultation Draft 2026 document. The link to the draft mid-term review is in the ‘Documents’ section below.

Your submission should be in written form, and should be no more than 2,000 words long.

You can make your submission by entering your feedback into the online EUSurvey public consultation submission form. To access the submission form, please click on:

We’ll collate and review any feedback or comments that are sent to us. We’ll use the feedback to inform the final version of the Heritage Ireland 2030 Mid-Term Review document.

We expect to publish the final mid-term review document before the end of 2026.

Any questions that you may have about the public consultation or the mid-term review can be emailed to heritageireland2030@housing.gov.ie.

• Heritage Ireland 2030 Mid-Term Review Public Consultation draft 2026

Other useful documents:

• Heritage Ireland 2030 - strategy
• Heritage Ireland 2030 – annual reports
• Heritage Ireland 2030 Review – Targeted Stakeholder Consultation Report

When making a submission, please note that the Department is subject to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2014. It is also subject to the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations 2007-2014. Submissions are further subject to Data Protection legislation.

This means that submissions that are sent to us may be made available on the Department’s website, unless otherwise requested.

The only personal details that you should include in your submission are your name and email address, and the name of your organisation, if relevant. You should not include any other personal information, or any confidential or commercially sensitive information in your submission.

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