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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: I am sorry, Secretary General. This is the second time, and it is very unusual I have to interrupt twice, particularly the same person. Will you answer the question directly please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: They are serving on the board.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: Deputy Ó Snodaigh is next, and apologies, I should have called him last.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: Sorry, I just want to clarify. I will give the Deputy back his time. I will not press Mr. Ó Coigligh for an answer because I understand it was a ministerial decision, but did he give advice to the Minister in writing or was it all oral?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: I agree. We should find out the reasoning behind it, to justify it and to see what difference would be made by a new appointment and the skill sets required. We will also be raising governance issues with regard to the whole Department going back a considerable period of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: It sounds incredible. It sounds unbelievable to all of us on the committee. That just sounds like a Department that is totally and utterly dysfunctional.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: Does Mr. Ó Coigligh know what? It is even more dysfunctional that he does not agree. Sixty pieces of correspondence - Mr. Ó Coigligh has given evidence here that he accepts Ms Kennelly's evidence - went through to a principal officer and were not escalated, as Deputy Carrigy has outlined. That is dysfunctional. For a Secretary General to then say it is not dysfunctional is more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: Sorry. I will ask Deputy Carrigy-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: We will probably end up returning to that. Before we conclude, I thank all the witnesses. This was an extraordinary meeting for reasons that I, as Chair, did not necessarily assume at the beginning. I thought some of the contradictions in the evidence were alarming. There are serious governance issues that go back a considerable period of time we are going to have to return to. There are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: Mr. Ó Coigligh has enough experience to know there needs to be a complete change in governance in respect of all of this. He has compiled his report and made his statements, but I am not convinced. As a committee, we are going to have to look at governance going forward. I will ask a question of Ms Kennelly. From all the evidence I have seen, she made significant attempts to engage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: The board has full confidence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: I do not mind if Mr. Ó Coigligh does not agree. I am just giving my assumption.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: When will that be? The next round will be at 9 a.m. It is now 12.10 a.m. It is after midnight.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: I want to know what happened here.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: To be fair to the Minister of State, he can only sit and listen to me. He is not even from the right Department. I will be sharing information. He will not be able to respond on the fly. It is detailed information. He will not be able to respond because he has no briefing and is not from the relevant Department, and it is now ten minutes past midnight. I was told by the Ceann Comhairle...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: At what time will I be informed in the morning? Will it be at 8.55 a.m.? This is farcical.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: I am not being difficult, but for this to happen at this hour of the night or morning - and I am not blaming the Minister of State - is farcical. It is an absolute farce to be waiting for all these hours and then be left in this situation. I do not see the point in proceeding.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: I do not know.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: Let me just have it documented that it is a farce to be left here until 12.10 a.m., waiting for hours, and then treated like this. In what other work environment would people be treated like this? We are all into family friendly environments.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: I do not have patience.