Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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Turning to Ms Licken's previous appearance before us, a number of recommendations were made. I am conscious that Covid has intervened in all of this, so I am really just asking how everything is going. The Department was to establish a revised set of operational and governance arrangements in respect of its national cultural institutions, NCI, capital investment programme. That was to include detailed arrangements for project oversight groups to meet regularly, ensure effective oversight and have communication channels in place so that the Department was fully informed of any issue that arose. The steering groups were to include officials from the Department, the Office of Public Works, OPW, the relevant NCI and project management teams and, as the projects developed, relevant experts. What has happened in this regard? Did the groups meet to ensure oversight of the projects and did Covid hamper that?