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

Photo of Malcolm ByrneMalcolm Byrne (Wicklow-Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Any contract above €25,000 must go to the management team. When I asked Mr. Falvey earlier, he said that we all knew in 2018 that the IT system was a problem. The Arts Council was pitching for a replacement in 2018. What was the Department's knowledge of what the cost of the system would be? We knew the system was not adequate. In 2018, was a cost provided to the Department?