Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Value for Money and Policy Review of the Arts Council: Discussion

2:15 pm

Ms Orlaith McBride:

Yes. Unfortunately, however, making such decisions means there will be casualties, to talk to the Deputy's point. If we are to ensure there are new opportunities available to new and emerging artists and to new organisations, we will have to reduce the funding to existing clients. We have not received an increase in our funding so we are still dealing with the same amount of money. We will have to make tough decisions in terms of reductions to recurring clients to ensure there is money available for new and emerging clients to come through as well. That is the difficulty we face all the time, to ensure new voices are coming through as well as those that are historically funded.

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