Malcolm Noonan (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I was attending another meeting on climate change but my understanding is that the contract for the former director of the Arts Council was a final contract and not a temporary contract. Why was the view of the board of the Arts Council disregarded that it would be more beneficial for the public interest that the contract not be extended? There is a vilification of the former director of the Arts Council generally in some of the commentary and the data breach on 19 June was talked about but the director has been gone since 13 June. We have to await the outcome of Professor Brennan's report. What were the Minister's thoughts around the decision-making-----