Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The production was a remarkable experience. I might not have time to ask the witnesses about capital expenditure versus current expenditure. From what I hear, the organisation has asked for more capital expenditure. Conversely, we have often heard representatives of the arts sphere beg for current expenditure rather than capital expenditure.

Listowel Writers' Week is Ireland's longest running literary festival. It receives a very small amount of funding from the local county council in the context of its overall funding. The witnesses are under no obligation to answer the following question but how does it make them feel when a local authority, like Dublin City Council, requests that a literary festival withdraws or cancels an event due to its content, be it political or otherwise?