Ms Angela Dorgan:

In respect of an artists' charter, in several areas there are artists' exemptions. Iceland is considering a taxation threshold for artists as citizens and on the call for better working and living conditions for artists, there are examples in France of low tax thresholds for all artists. In the UK, in order that musicians were not required to take jobs other than their music-making jobs the Labour Government implemented a musicians dole which was successful for a while. There are several international examples of how, outside copyright, we can help individual artists in a practical way.

In response to the document, we would like to see more about the artist and the artist living and working. They are citizens and we are citizens. At every level of their lives, we would like to see Ireland take on what has worked in other countries but we would also like Ireland and all of us together to lead and make life better for artists so that instead of being at the end of the European polls for everything, we would be at the top of them.