Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport
Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Evanne Ní Chuilinn (Fine Gael)
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It would have been an important clarification to get from the Arts Council because, as Mr. Ó Coigligh said in his opening statement, these State bodies are accountable for public money. They are accountable for the money, and I think the Arts Council should have clarified that sooner than today, frankly, through the Department. It should have come straight to the committee on this because the €60,000 figure is now €119,000, and we have to wonder is that the final figure or just the latest figure.
Were the 60 items of correspondence cited by the Arts Council with regard to the project all about money and the escalating costs or were those 60 communications around the wider Arts Council?