Received 24 March 2025
Decided 23 April 2025
Part-Granted
Request Reference TCAGSM-FOI-2025-0111
Requester Type Journalist
Department of Culture, Communications and Sport

The Minister stated in late February that the department has written to bodies under its aegis to seek details of capital projects with a cost of at least €500,000 or other projects where there has been significant expenditure which were abandoned or have materially failed to deliver. I request the following records to cover the period 20 February 2025 to present: Copies of each response received from individual agencies; Any spreadsheet, review, report, analysis detailing the details provided by individualagencies and/or an overview of aggregate findings from this exercise; Any memo or briefing paper for the Minister and/or senior management; In tabular form, a list of provided details per projects to include agency name, projectname, the project estimated cost, the overspent to date; and if the project was completed