Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion

Ms Siobhán Ní Chonaráin:

I will take the first bit. We highly recommend the Irish Theatre Institute's recommendations on the provision of resources to arts workers such as counselling services and impartial HR advice, a mediation service and legal consultation. It has the potential to be transformative but it needs to be funded, an issue to which Deputy Munster referred. However, it did not follow up on having an independent body. We feel that, for people to report, there needs to be an independent body that can look into allegations. If they are of a criminal and serious nature, obviously they will be passed over to the Garda. If they are not, then they will go through an investigative process and a register would be made - not publicly - where funding bodies could look to see if somebody was accused of a crime.

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