Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 9 February 2022
66. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the performance delivery agreement between Galway 2020 and her Department has expired; if so, the date it expired; if not, the date that it will expire; and her views on whether the agreement was breached at any time. [6774/22]
View answer67. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of times representatives from her Department attended monitoring meetings including virtually bilateral meetings with Galway 2020; and the number of times her Department met with Galway City Council regarding Galway 2020 in each of the past five years. [6787/22]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 66 and 67 together.
The Performance Delivery Agreement (PDA) between the Department and Galway 2020, signed on 6 November 2018, provided for quarterly bilateral monitoring meetings. In July 2020 revised terms and conditions for the Galway 2020 restructured cultural programme owing to the pandemic, required fortnightly meetings. In total to the end of 2021, 31 monitoring meetings took place between the Department and Galway 2020.
The PDA also provided for regular monitoring meetings between the Department and the other public funders and the Department and Galway City Council met in this context on 15 occasions up to end 2021.
The PDA between the Department and Galway 2020 expired on 31 December 2021. The commitments set out in the PDA to deliver an effective cultural programme under its year as Ireland’s 2020 European Capital of Culture were met on an ongoing basis, including compliance with the requirements for the drawdown of Department funds and quarterly monitoring and reporting arrangements.
