Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure
Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

5:05 pm

Photo of Fiach MacConghailFiach MacConghail (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire agus an Aire Stáit. I welcome everyone here today and extend that welcome to the officials. As director of the Abbey Theatre, the national theatre is in receipt of funding from the Department when it comes to capital allocation and from the Arts Council when it comes to the current account. We currently receive €7.1 million from the Arts Council and have had a welcome capital contribution towards the building from the Department.

I know the Minister and I have not seen eye to eye recently when it came to the mergers of national cultural institutions.

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