Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 March 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

9:00 am

Ms Katherine Licken:

It is low rent. It is €1 per year for 25 years. When it was Solas as a not-for-profit organisation promoting and delivering this project, it had a 99-year lease. As part of the agreement to hand over the project to Element Pictures, it was reduced to a 30-year lease and after 25 years, it will revert to a commercial lease for the last five years. Again, we have a lien on the property and the ability to take over the project if it is not run as an art house cinema. The company has invested at least €1 million to date in getting the doors to open on the cinema.

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