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 assets are being wound up. The 356 percussion instruments, which were part of an element of the project, have been donated to the Galway-Roscommon Education and Training Board, ETB, for use in music generation. Following the expiry of its lease on 31 March 2021, Galway 2020 officially moved from 16 Merchants Road to its new office in the Wave Maker hub at the Cornstore in Middle Street, Galway. Prior to that, the assets identified for disposal included furniture, fixtures, fittings, ICT and technology equipment. Approval was obtained from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for the disposal of assets. I can give the Vice Chair a note on this if it would help her, rather than walking through these step-by-step here.