David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The follow-on question would be why a third-party agency would be needed to distribute the €196,000. Surely that is why the Arts Council is there in the first instance. I do not understand why one would give €196,000 to a third party to distribute money to grant recipients. If it is a private organisation, it would make money off the back of it. That strikes me as somewhat bizarre.