Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The council is only independent in the performance of its functions under this section for the purposes of the four areas set out under section 24(1). They are to stimulate public interest in the arts, promote knowledge, improve standards in the arts and assist in the development of advancing the arts. None of those areas concerns the policy that surrounds the issue we are working on and discussing today.