Taoiseach: National Gallery has to answer for buying €125k scanner without having space for it

Micheál Martin said The National Gallery 'hosts many treasures, but it is incomprehensible that it would have proceeded under a digitisation scheme to purchase a scanner and not have organised in advance how that scanner would be deployed in terms of a lead-lined room and so on'. File picture

It is "incomprehensible" that the National Gallery would purchase a €125,000 scanner without having space to house it, the Taoiseach has said.

Micheál Martin strongly criticised the fact that the machine has been left unused for almost eight years, saying it is "not acceptable".