Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Estimates For Public Services 2017: Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
1:30 pm
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
No. The money for Cruinniú na Cásca came out of the Creative Ireland budget. There were 750 events, of which 200 were funded by Creative Ireland on behalf of the local authorities. The local authority partnership received €1 million from my Department and a further €1 million from the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. I will finish this and then I will explain the rest of it. On citizen engagement, we had a lot of consultation with people right across the country. Those involved all said that they wanted to hear more about this, they wanted to be informed and they wanted to be told about it. That cost €900,000. On events and festival partnerships, we went to different events. There was some high-profile-----
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