Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

They are not without their difficulties. My intent is to appoint someone to the chair of the Arts Council who has an interest in and some knowledge of the arts and has the business capacity to manage a budget in the order of €70 million or €80 million, which is very significant. That is not a small business, it is a significant amount of resources. I have not made a decision. I probably would have preferred to have done so, but events in the past week or two got in the way of doing so. I intend to make that announcement as quickly as possible.

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