Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Anna Walsh:

We are at the early stages. In our presentation earlier we were putting the emphasis on the capital investment because that is on behalf of our members. We firmly believe it is an "and and" scenario. It is capital investment and continued investment in the programme. That programme, whether it is Arts Council investment in the work of what I described as professional companies or all of the local and community groups, where there is equally valuable if not more important work happening, is about programme investment in both. It is not one at the expense of the other. On the sports capital scheme, the only analogy I can think of that might be useful is that arts centres are the pitches of the sports capital programme.

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