Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 May 2019

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

Statement of Strategy 2018 to 2020 and Project Ireland 2040: Discussion

Ms Katherine Licken:

I am pretty sure it is. I can confirm it for the committee. We had big success in last year's Venice Biennale of Architecture, in that it was curated by our own architects. Mr. Falvey can speak to this year's arts Biennale. A delegation from the Department went to it.

I imagine the Clones film festival is funded by the Arts Council.

I do not have the details, but we can definitely come back to the Deputy on it.

On the market in Castleblayney, Mr. Ó Donnchú might talk to the Deputy further about it. In fairness, as the Deputy has engaged in quite a lot of dialogue with us on it and asked the Minister a number of parliamentary questions about it, we are familiar with the issue. There is an historic structures scheme in place to deal with such buildings. Again, we liaise through the local authorities to enable them to come up with proposals for us.

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