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

Mr. Feargal Ó Coigligh:

-----including mandatory training in respect of governance and ensuring that if anything like this comes up again it is highlighted.

It should be made known that while the Arts Council did keep officials aware during the progress of this report, if one looks at the report, however, there is a pattern of "we have a problem but it is okay we have a solution, and we have a problem but it is okay we have a solution" until it came to a point where the Arts Council agreed to significant additional expenditure and we should have said "stop" and we did not. That will not happen again.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.