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:

It is committed in the sense that we have put money aside. It is in the national development plan. We are committed to the project. Obviously, in line with any commitments we make on any project, however, there is still a need to comply with the public spending code. There is an onus on me as Accounting Officer, and on all of us as public servants, to ensure all the boxes are ticked although a signal is given to commit to a project.