Mr. Feargal Cavanagh:

This has been an ongoing issue with us and Arts Council, with which we are in continual contact. An actual funding stream for musical theatre does not exist.

Musicals are put in with opera, which is specifically funded. There is a massive need to allocate separate funding for musical theatre so that it can stand in its own right, rather that seeing whether something is left in another budget to be given to it. That has been a major issue.