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:
We were delighted Galway 2020 did achieve the €1.5 million award. It did not directly apply for other EU funding as, legally, the organisation had to have been in existence for more than two years to comply with EU funding application criteria more generally, and the organisation was notin situfor two years at that stage-----