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Concerns of artistic community ignored at our peril

Speaking this evening in the Dáil during private members' business, Fine Gael TD for Dublin South, Olivia Mitchell, urged the Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs, Jimmy Deenihan TD, to preserve in the curatorial and programming independence of the cultural institutions.

National Cultural Institutions

I am not being political when I highlight that the concerns expressed in the motion correspond to measures promised in the budget of 2009 by the party then in government.