Environment Committee to focus on General Scheme of National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill

Noel Coonan, Leas-Chathaoirleach of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht, said: “The purpose of this bill is to give statutory status to the National Concert Hall, in line with the governance and accountability regime that applies to other national cultural institutions. Tomorrow we will to carry our pre-legislative scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Bill when we will consider the Heads of the Bill in detail with representatives from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Gerry Kearney, Chairman and Simon Taylor, Chief Executive Officer, National Concert Hall.”

This meeting will take place at 2.15pm on Tuesday, 30th September 2014 in Committee Room 4.

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Membership of the Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Deputies: James Bannon TD (Fine Gael); Noel Coonan (Fine Gael) Leas-Chathaoirleach; Ruth Coppinger (Socialist Party); Marcella Corcoran Kennedy TD (Fine Gael); Barry Cowen (Fianna Fáil); Robert Dowds (Labour); Michael McCarthy TD (Labour) Cathaoirleach; Peadar Tóibín (Sinn Féin); Tony Mc Loughlin TD (Fine Gael); Michelle Mulherin TD (Fine Gael); Catherine Murphy TD (Independent); Éamonn Maloney TD (Labour); Seán Ó Fearghaíl TD (Fianna Fáil);  Brian Stanley TD (Sinn Féin).

Senators: Senator Cáit Keane (Fine Gael); Senator Denis Landy (Labour); An Seanadóir Fiach Mac Conghail (Neamhspleách); Senator Hildegarde Naughton (Fine Gael); An Seanadóir Labhrás Ó Murchú (Fianna Fáil): Senator Ned O’Sullivan (Fianna Fáil).