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:
If the organisation had been set up sooner, it could have applied. The European Commission emphasises that the delivery team should focus on the overall programme delivery and support our artists to build their capacity and networks at European level. Galway 2020 was successful at getting some of the partners and projects to get money themselves directly from the EU.