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:

The Deputy is correct to raise this issue. The storage issue is very important to us. We have worked very closely with the National Museum of Ireland on storage. The museum uses the storage facility not only for storage but also for researchers coming to access the collections to work on them. I might ask Mr. Falvey to go into more detail. We have a lot of engagement. The facility is under contract with the OPW. We have had an awful lot of engagement with the National Museum of Ireland and the OPW in respect of this particular site.