Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. The Minister knows the background to this. We were all very proud in Galway and then it was bedevilled by bad luck, by bad weather, by Covid and by bad management, without a doubt. I say this publicly. With the legacy, foolishly we thought there may be infrastructure. In my second contribution I will come back to the language around what is not physical infrastructure.

I am following up on this because I sat on the Committee of Public Accounts and we brought it to the attention of the Department to monitor carefully what was going on with regard to the €15 million. In February 2023 I was told that the legacy framework will be published on the website of Galway Culture Company - we have a new company which is the Galway Culture Company - and this would be during March. We are now in May. My specific question is what is the delay. I welcome the website. I welcome that it is bilingual. I know there are very good people on the ground but the history of this forces me to stand up here to make sure that the whole situation is monitored.

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