Ms Siobhán Ní Chonaráin:

On the question about Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and rebuilding trust, the trust in Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann can be assured. We have already accounted for our equity and gender balance within this document, and there has been a whole scoping across the organisation, not just among artists but also administration and festival organisers. In Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, our unique structure is such that there are committees of people in standing units of five who are charged with administering branches and relaying back to the full board. Our decisions are made by a group of people, which of course means that power and authority, which are so much associated with harassment, are not vested in one person. All our educational programmes have separate committees that make decisions in that regard. We account for ourselves in terms of all our public funding and that relates to our internal procedures and so forth. From our point of view any organisation and any funder can trust us to deliver not just on what we are already involved in but that which we intend to expand delivery of moving forward.