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
Ms Katherine Licken:
Mr. Lionáin will comment on that but, as we said earlier, if a project has been awarded grant aid, it will get that grant aid as long as it fulfils the conditions of the grant application. That is really important to us. The Deputy is correct in that sport is part of the fabric of communities right across Ireland, as is culture. There is quite a synergy between the two areas. For some people sport is for them and for others it is culture, while some find both important. Both are important to the social fabric of society.