Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 March 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

9:00 am

Ms Katherine Licken:

To be clear, even though the contract had been signed and we had not had knowledge of it, we did not just say it was fine to proceed and we would keep paying. Rather, we said that we would not pay more until Solas could show that the deficit of funding for the project could be addressed. Solas then identified further funding sources, including from Element Pictures, and it was on that basis that we recommenced payments.