Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Further Revised)
Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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Work is ongoing on the transfer of the orchestra. Money is safely ring-fenced to facilitate that and work is ongoing for the successful transfer, which we all wish to see. It was hugely significant and important to get that funding ring-fenced.
We have a working group with RTÉ, the National Concert Hall and the Department and will bring forward legislation. That money is safe and it is for that purpose and that purpose alone.