Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 January 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013
10:00 am
Mr. Joe Hamill:
No, not at this stage. By way of background, there is a group working on some of these things. We are trying to work our way through them at the moment. The Government decided in recent days to set up a Cabinet committee on 2016 which the Taoiseach will chair. It will have its first meeting next week. Part of the thinking on this is to have a closer focus by Government on the different issues and their co-ordination. One of the things which has been greatly emphasised, and my Minister has been strong on this, is the need for this to be inclusive, historically accurate and respectful. The Vice Chairman will be aware of the committee of historians, chaired by Maurice Manning, advising us. They are very keen that all of these kinds of things would be historically true and accurate-----
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