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

Photo of Alan DillonAlan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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I thank Ms Licken. Ensuring that these organisations remained operational during Covid was important for keeping people's spirits up throughout the country, and especially to keep their minds off the pandemic.

On the Future of Media Commission, I sit on the Oireachtas Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture Sport and the Gaeltacht and we have done much work around the online safety and media regulation Bill. There is huge frustration around the report that is sitting in the Department. Will Ms Licken give us an understanding of when it will be published? How much has the report cost the taxpayer in terms of expenses related to the Future of Media Commission?