Sinéad Gibney (Dublin Rathdown, Social Democrats)
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That is my point. The Department of public expenditure says "No". When the Department itself does not want to say "No", it says that the Department of public expenditure says "No". There was a risk associated with not allocating seniority to this role. A decision was made not to give the Arts Council a principal officer but to give it a higher executive officer. That, arguably, resulted in governance failures in the oversight of the project. When that was being considered, was it considered alongside other agencies? For example, was an assistant principal or principal officer role granted to another agency or the Department? Is there a risk analysis? How does the Department take all of the requests that come at it? Are they centrally pooled? Are they reviewed in one picture to avoid this kind of situation?