Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 May 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending
2:00 am
Ms Maureen Kennelly:
No, there is not. Everybody here probably knows we are in a legal process so the outcome is uncertain but we are hopeful we will gain a significant amount back. When we deemed this a failure, we went to the Department in the summer of 2024 with what we were calling an "option B", which is an off-the-shelf grant system. The Sinéad O'Hara report suggested an external review should be done of both the €6.75 million-----
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