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 see in the appropriation account in regard to the broadcasting fund that there was a provision of €18.05 million available under the sound and vision scheme and we had an overturn of €21.7 million. Why was there no Covid-19 scheme available for the local print media?