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
Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The Secretary General can understand the frustration among the National Union of Journalists, NUJ, and local print media outlets when they see the sound and vision scheme allocate funding on two separate grounds and their industry is left secondary with regard to any type of Covid funding. They feel aggrieved about what the Department is doing to support their sector. Will the Department address this?