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Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I would like to go back to the questions Deputy McFadden asked. I know that Ms Fahy is limited in what she can say. From the public’s point of view, how do we know that there is not more missing from the National Library than the items being looked for? According to media reports these items were missing for up to a year before that was even detected?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is that complete?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Other material could be missing.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: How can the public help to recover material that is missing and being sought if the library does not tell the public what is missing?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: People are potentially going to antique fairs, car boot sales and sales of work where artefacts owned by the State are put up for sale and buying them.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Regardless of what marks are on an artefact owned by the State, if a nice book comes up for sale from the boot of a car at a mart and winds up on someone’s coffee table the person does not know it is the property of the State and has been robbed. At what stage does the library say it must tell people what is missing in order to recover these things?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: There are a lot of artefacts missing.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does Ms Fahy accept my point, that unless the public and the media know what has been stolen and is potentially for sale-----

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: They would be the last people the person would sell back to.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: They are not going to sell it to legitimate librarians, with the greatest of respect. If they have stolen material from a library they are hardly going to offer it to the British Library.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Do you accept that the material will not be brought to your colleagues in other libraries?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is fair to say it will never be recovered unless you tell people what is missing. It will never be presented to colleagues in national libraries or universities around the world.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is it the practice of the library or has it been advised not to tell people what is missing?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is fair to say that we will never find out. I will move on to island airports. Could Mr. Hamill tell me whether the Department is paying a charge to the Irish Aviation Authority, IAA?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: I realise the Department was the funding Department for the Limerick City of Culture initiative. I am wearing a parish jersey now. What was Mr. Hamill's overall impression of the year in terms of value for money and the events that were held? How has it positioned Limerick in terms of a possible bid for European City of Culture?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: What did Mr. Hamill think of the State broadcaster's coverage of the "Granny"? I am sure he was down there.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Is there a funding stream for legacy?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: What role does the Department have in that?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Will the Department be asked to make a recommendation, for want of a better word?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote 33 - Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Chapter 9 - Accounting for National Gallery of Ireland Expenditure
Financial Statements of the National Library 2012 and 2013 (29 Jan 2015)

Patrick O'Donovan: Have they been selected?