Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020
9:30 am
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I want to go back to some of the underspend on cultural infrastructure and development. There was an underspend of €6 million in 2020. The Department attributed that to a number of large-scale projects that did not progress due to the time frame relating to various issues, including Covid-19 delays. Ms Licken stated that the full underspend was to be carried forward into 2021. Could she provide some detail on that? What large-scale cultural infrastructure and development projects were not progressed in 2020 due to Covid-19 reasons?