Results 41-60 of 142 for speaker:Evanne Ní Chuilinn
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: That is all right. We will move on to Deputy Ó Snodaigh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: We are out of time. Sorry, Deputy. We can come around again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: We move on to Senator Noonan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: First, I greatly appreciate the arts. I grew up in a house that was obsessed with the arts. I was in orchestras, choirs and dance schools but appreciate good governance. I think the Arts Council would accept there is learning for everyone around governance failings over the last couple of years. It is an awful lot of money to fall through the tracks. I will pick up on the points that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: So we have a loss of €6.5 million. Am I correct that €1.5 million still has to be paid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Am I correct that the very least that is going to be paid for an off-the-shelf Joe Bloggs system is €8 million plus a subscription fee every year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: That is given what has been lost so far.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: If the Arts Council is allowed to take legal redress. That is an awful lot of money. As the loss accrued who had oversight in terms of finance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: The Arts Council must sign up to the code of governance and the delegation will be familiar with competency-based appointments. Which board member of the Arts Council brings a fiduciary or accounting and finance oversight or competency?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I am asking about the board that was in place when all of this money was falling through cracks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Who was the accountancy or accounting person on the board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I have asked about board of the Arts Council. In terms of good governance, competency-based appointments are very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Who is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I clearly asked who was the person who had oversight of this money as it was falling through the cracks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: There should be a competency-based appointment on the board in terms of finance. Who was that person when the money was falling through the cracks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I am a little bit worried about the governance because €141 million is an awful lot of money and €8 million went down the drain as it was spent on a system that is not really fit for purpose. Is Ms McGrath a member of any other boards at present? Was she a member of any other boards at this time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: How long has Ms McGrath been chair of the National Concert Hall?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: During all of that time was Ms McGrath chair of the National Concert Hall and chair of the Arts Council?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Was there an overlap of a year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: So Ms McGrath was on two boards. As chair of the Arts Council, has Ms McGrath approved funding, for example, for artists who would perform in the National Concert Hall, which would create revenue for the National Concert Hall?