Michael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The committee is now in public session. This session has been convened for a Culture Ireland presentation by the Minister of State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht with special responsibility for new communities, culture and equality and drug strategies, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin. I welcome the Minister of State and his officials and I invite him to make his presentation.