Results 181-200 of 319 for speaker:Joanna Byrne
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: I welcome the witnesses. I have some questions for the Arts Council about the €5.2 million that was written off for an IT system deemed not to be fit for purpose and which was eventually discontinued. When this project was first planned six years ago, it was estimated it would cost roughly €3 million and take two and a half years to complete. Ms Kennelly said that coming up...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: That might have led to the council not being able to address some of the substandard work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: Does the senior expert IT expert the council brought in involve an additional cost or is it included in the cost-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: Ms Kennelly mentioned that the Arts Council is seeking legal redress against two of the contractors. Did it withhold any payments to those contractors at the time or were they paid for all the work?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: They still have not been paid.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: Ms Kennelly also mentioned that the council engaged with the Office of Government Procurement prior to this project. Has there been further engagement with the Office of Government Procurement regarding how we move forward on this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: With regard to the late submission of the Arts Council's financial statements, the Comptroller and Auditor General outlined in his opening statement the timeline of when it presented the accounts. The Arts Council presented them to the Department but they were not presented to the Oireachtas Library until four months later. This is probably directed more at Mr. Ó Coigligh than Ms...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: The Minister was aware of this-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: The Minister did not inform Government.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: I appreciate the context of that because a lot of that has been a grey area in recent times. Just so we are clear, however, the Minister was aware, followed Mr. Ó Coigligh's advice and did not take it to the Government at that stage until the audit was complete, and Mr. Ó Coigligh knew that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: I thank Mr. Ó Coigligh. I will go back to the Arts Council, if I may. The financial strain of everything we are discussing here is being felt in the sector. Ms Kennelly stated that demands for Arts Council funds have risen by 245% since 2020. I have some queries on why the Arts Council decided to reduce the arts grant funding programme without consultation with the stakeholders...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: Will Ms Kennelly give some clarity on how an organisation becomes strategically funded or what the entry criteria for that are?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: Therefore, it is at the discretion of arts council management.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: I welcome the witnesses. I am sure we all hoped representatives of RTÉ would not be here again in this Dáil term to discuss any more financial scandals, let alone so soon after the events of 2023 and 2024. Following those events, three reports were published by the previous Minister for the media, namely, a review of the governance and culture of RTÉ; a review of contractor...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: That is not what I asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: I was really looking for assurances from the director general that those reports and their recommendations are being adhered to. I respect that all of this happened before his time but it is disappointing that his first line of response to me was that he had not thought about it. It is fairly obvious to me that if he is trying to set a new regime for RTÉ and a new respect for good...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: Considering the amount of time that was put into RTÉ in the Oireachtas, the exposure RTÉ got and the exposure of all the bad governance, the process the organisation fed into for so many committees, particularly this committee and the Committee of Public Accounts, and the time and effort put into all those reports, I would have thought that would be a basis to build on to ensure...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: That is no problem. I will move on to the accounts and the impairments in the accounts. It is a matter of public record that information provided to NewERA did not give rise to any concerns, which is why its report did not flag this issue as a matter of concern. I cannot get my head around how that happened if it was noted in the annual accounts from 2020 to 2023, as I understand it. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: Please do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: NewERA has stated that information provided by RTÉ to it did not give rise to any concerns. If NewERA was not given cause for any concerns, it could not, in effect, report on that to the Department. That is the bit that sets off alarm bells for me.