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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I think the Minister should know if we have bottomed out because he is the Minister. At this point, the Arts Council is under pressure and in a time of crisis. It should have provided full disclosure and the Minster should have every piece of information in front of him that he needs. Just for the sake of the record, I think the Minister should know and should be informed as to whether we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Yes. I take the point the Minister made around the contract, wanting to have a timeline for the new executive director and to wait until the outcome of the report. I think that makes sense. We are, though, talking about the guts of €7 million gone. The Arts Council still does not have an IT system. The off-the-shelf one is still maybe an option. We are still, though, talking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Will that be addressed within the governance review as well by Professor Niamh Brennan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I have more questions, but I will wait until the next round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I wish to get clarification on GAA+. I think its launch was postponed or cancelled in early March. Was it fully signed off between the RTÉ board and the Minister? I think the Minister would have had to sign off on it. It was GAAGo and it was reconfigured into GAA+. What is the state of play?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: For clarity, RTÉ technically still has 50% ownership of GAAGo.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: So it still has that at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: GAAGo. GAA+ is a new venture and it did not need any-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: That is all right; I will take it. I thank the Department officials for coming in again. I was not sure where I would start, but I might just pick up on what Senator Comyn said about the legal challenges and where those are at. I was really surprised to see the clarification in Mr. Ó Coigligh's opening statement around the cost, and when the Arts Council or the Department was told to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Chair, did we get a communication on this? The Arts Council told this committee, not the Department, that the figure was €60,000. Its representatives were asked repeatedly if it was definitely just €60,000. I asked a lot of questions about accounting and finance competencies on the Arts Council board. Did we get a communication from the Arts Council to correct the record?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Okay. I think-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Yes, it was just that it was such a talking point around money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: It would have been an important clarification to get from the Arts Council because, as Mr. Ó Coigligh said in his opening statement, these State bodies are accountable for public money. They are accountable for the money, and I think the Arts Council should have clarified that sooner than today, frankly, through the Department. It should have come straight to the committee on this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I have, but I just wonder what the breakdown is. How much of it is about money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I am sorry; it is this breakdown I have in front of me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I thought it was a different list. I apologise. That is my mistake.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: It refers to Powerpoint communications and covering issues in the budget, so there are about 17 items on the budget. Did Mr. Ó Coigligh feel like he was up to date and informed on the runaway train that was the money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: When the €5.3 million was written off by the Arts Council, which was a surprise to Mr. Ó Coigligh, did that ring alarm bells for him in terms of oversight and governance of bodies?