Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 January 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013
10:00 am
Mr. Joe Hamill:
Looking back at what we have been involved in since the decade started and since we were asked to take this on, we have been involved in or supported a range of events, not always directly or financially, which have ran the gamut. The Chair mentioned an event in Wexford. We have been involved in lots of those kinds of events around the country. Speaking personally, if I may for a moment, we have seen a massive sea change in the openness of people on the First World War. The National Library will have seen it at open days when people brought memorabilia and that kind of thing. This is how we started this process and this is the way we will go on. This is our approach.