Mr. Feargal Ó Coigligh:

The Department is taking responsibility for our failings in this regard and we are taking the steps to ensure it does not happen again. Since I have come in as Secretary General I have made changes. I have appointed a new senior head of IT at principal officer level and I have set up a new governance unit. This is how I am responding to the failures identified in the report. The Minister has set up a separate governance review of the Arts Council to look at the failures there.