Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to clarify that there is no Creative Ireland funding. I will arrange separate dedicated workshops for board members and senior staff of bodies reporting to my Department. I am happy to expand that to arts and cultural organisations across the country. I will provide training on corporate governance with a particular emphasis on bullying and harassment. This is unacceptable behaviour. I do not want to see this happening. Nevertheless, there are huge responsibilities on people in each of those organisations. There are rules and regulations in place with which they should comply, and they should have policies and procedures in place. I want to facilitate them and to make sure they put proper structures in place. I can only encourage them. It is their decision and at the end of the day they have to do that. I want to remind them that there are legal obligations in place. I want to work with the sector so that we can stamp out this sort of behaviour. What we have been reading in the newspapers in recent weeks is awful.

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