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
Aidan Farrelly (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
That is a significant issue right there. I have one more question for Mr. Ó Coigligh. I put in a series of parliamentary questions to the Department with regard to IT projects, and the rationale that was cited for not providing details on those was that due to an issue of national security or cybersecurity, the Department and the Minister would not provide the details of contractors involved in IT services. At the same time, I asked the exact same question of the Department of Defence, which would be equally concerned, I would imagine, about national security, and it did provide details of the businesses attached to the IT projects within that Department. Will Mr. Ó Coigligh clarify why his Department would not be forthcoming about the information about the contractors, given how important that information is?
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