Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport
Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Maura McGrath:
This is a very important question. It is an opportunity to reassure the sector, which is of primary importance. The specialism of the Arts Council has not been damaged through this project. It is essential to say this. As we have said in this room for the past hour and a half, there were failings of governance at a number of stages when certain things were not called out and where the risk register was, perhaps, not followed through with the diligence to raise it to the level required. That is what secures taxpayers' money. This is very much in hand.