Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Revised)
2:10 pm
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
We are working very closely with the Department of Education and Skills. We have signed the arts in education charter. We are elaborating further on the charter through Creative Ireland, which is enabling the creative potential of every child. We want to ensure that every child will have the opportunity to access tuition in arts by 2022. It is about arts in education. We are bringing in all the stakeholders. I met them last Saturday, which was national arts in education day and I am sure the Deputy is familiar with it. I spoke in St. Patrick's in Drumcondra. I met teachers, artists, education officers, arts officers and young people who experience arts in education at first hand.
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