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Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: We have some of the strongest employment legislation in Europe, much of which was updated over the past couple of years. We also have whistleblower legislation. I cannot get involved in HR issues. However, I will work with the sector on what it believes will bring about improvements. There is a cultural issue here. The culture of bullying and harassment in any organisation must be weeded...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: I will answer the last question first. There are conditions on Arts Council funding and they include a requirement that recipients must comply with all laws applicable to the body in question, including statutory obligations under employment law statutes, regulations and revenue requirements. Harassment and bullying is covered under employment law so it is covered. In addition,...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: The Arts Council cannot be a regulator. It has said the conditions on the funding it provides include a requirement that recipients must comply with all laws applicable to the body in question. All laws are applicable to those organisations. They are bound by the laws of the land on employment and other areas. They organisations must do that.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: It is the case already. Organisations must be in compliance with the Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2011, which include issues such as bullying and harassment. I am working with the Arts Council to arrange regional workshops to address all of those issues. We will meet in the Abbey Theatre initially but workshops will be held across the country for arts and cultural organisations to hear...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: Yes, they would have been. They were not paid directly by us but through RTÉ. We funded RTÉ and it in turn employed the various artists for the different events.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: They were all paid through local authorities. I imagine there is a code of practice in place but I am not sure. That was all done by the local authorities. Funding was provided to them and they organised their own cruinniú events in every single county. The festival was very successful and people really engaged on the day. Many events were organised right across the country. We...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: Yes, we wanted to be part of the festivals.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: They were high profile festivals. There is a list of them here. They were all over the country. For example, the Hot Press Write Here, Write Now event in Killarney, the Belfast-Los Angeles-----

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: They were high profile events across the country and we wanted to be part of them. Other festivals included the Kilkenny Arts Festival and Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Ennis, which is a big event that one would not want to miss.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: It is a two-way process.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: There was a two-way process. We wanted to be part of the process, perhaps somebody told us about an event and that we could be part of it.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: I agree with the Deputy that the Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2011 deal with harassment and bullying in the workplace. That is what governs it. On the Seamus Heaney exhibition in the wonderful Bank of Ireland College Green centre, we have been working very closely with Bank of Ireland and the National Library in recent years. The exhibition is well under way and we hope it will open...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: I have covered most matters.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: Yes I will, Deputy. I know I am prudent, but I will spend it all.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: At this stage I do not anticipate that there will be any carryover. We have spent €5.6 million of the €13.5 million which was carried over from last year. On the delay in spending the balance of that money, progress on the National Archives was slower than expected. It was allocated funding but has not been able to move the project on as quickly as it would have liked. ...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: Yes.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: €10 million has been vired from that area, €6 million to heritage and €2 million each to waterways and the Irish language.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: It has been vired from savings under subhead A7. Due to the scale and complexity of once-off aspects of the capital programme, some adjustments have been made to allocations. Savings will arise under subhead A7, cultural infrastructure and development, and subhead A16, Cork Events Centre, as a result of delayed drawdowns in a number of capital projects due to a combination of outside...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: No. It did not.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Heather Humphreys: No, I cannot carry over a carryover.