Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Padraic McIntyre:
I mean the procurement of artists, because the county council regime for procurement is quite strict and does not always fit the artistic agenda we are trying to facilitate. Under e-tenders or whatever, more established artists or international artists can come to Cavan for six or nine months because there is a larger pot of money on offer. However, artists in general are not very good at tendering under these processes. We have run into some problems with that. We could draw down money from different schemes, between the Townhall Cavan and the arts office, for artists, but sometimes it is tricky to get that procured, for want of a better word, because it is not a load of gravel we are trying to buy.
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