Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 March 2018

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised)

1:30 pm

Photo of Josepha MadiganJosepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Chairman is right that there have been ongoing issues but we have done a lot with regard to training and giving governance training to the board to make sure that the National Museum is compliant with employer legislation. That is important. We are doing everything we can to make sure that these sorts of issues do not arise in the future. There was a review of the Department documentation in 2017 and we have continued to support the board. We have had three human resources, HR, positions there. I sanctioned three HR people to help. One started in February of this year on an 18 month contract. That is a HR manager.

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