Mr. Joe Hamill:

In 2014, for the first time, we were not asked to make reductions and it was a first for this Department, which was only set up in 2011. As the process went through the Revised Estimates, we were given some additional funding going into this year. For the first time since we were established, we have turned the corner purely in financial terms. We were in a position to give some additional money to national cultural institutions, which have been under pressure. We have heard some of that already this morning and we provided extra money to the Arts Council and to commemorations. Most of the rest of the Department's allocation stayed as it was in 2014.