Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 June 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding
9:30 am
Dr. Aodh?n Mac Cormaic:
What amazed me about the process was how quickly the sector turned to doing stuff online. I have a whole list I could read out that provides what we did that was funded by the Department, Foras na Gaeilge and Údarás na Gaeltachta. The way people and groups turned things around and started doing things online delivered an awful lot of the activities they committed to delivering in the five-year plan. They just changed and delivered them online. Some of that was very challenging but we managed. If the Deputy looks at the annual report for 2021 on the five-year plan, it is quite impressive. We did not fall behind in any quantifiable sense. Most of what was laid down for 2021 was achieved.