Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 31 January 2024
69. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide a progress update on the work of the advisory committee on the restitution and repatriation of cultural heritage, and a list of times and dates when the advisory committee met since being established. [4498/24]
View answerLast June, I brought a Memorandum to Government to inform them of my intention to establish an Advisory Committee on the Restitution and Repatriation of Historically and Culturally Sensitive Objects in Ireland. The Committee is tasked with the drafting of policy advice and national guidelines on the restitution and repatriation of cultural heritage in Ireland that has been illegally or unethically elicited or traded, or may be viewed as culturally sensitive or contested.
I appointed the members of the committee in November 2023 and to date they have met once, on 4 December 2023.
