Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion

1:30 pm

Photo of Danny Healy-RaeDanny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am very proud to be a Kerryman and to represent Kerry in the Dáil. We have the Listowel Writers' Week but there are other cultural events that happen only in Kerry. The Listowel festival organisers do their job so well and make people feel welcome. The event was founded by John. B. Keane, Dr. Bryan MacMahon and others. Both of their names are synonymous with Listowel and they have done great work for Listowel and Kerry, of which we are very proud.

I heard the witnesses mention Garda vetting. I know about the situation because I own a school bus. If my driver takes a day off I cannot borrow a bus driver from another local contractor, for example, without him or her being Garda vetted even though he is-----

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