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

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If I could just finish, in respect of the events and festivals partnerships at which we had stands such as, for example, Electric Picnic. Again, we were getting involved and putting out the message about the importance of the arts. There were many other events. I have a list of them here that I can give to the committee. We spent €490,000 in that area.

We spent €400,000 on digital content and a further €200,000 on the international part of the programme. On the administrative costs of the whole project, there was lot of work involved in getting different agencies and organisations working together. The administrative project office cost €500,000. Other initiatives came to €260,000. That is how the entire €5 million was spent. There is a great awareness about Creative Ireland. The arts sector has welcomed it hugely. There are five different pillars and it is about delivering on these.

I cannot set up a funding stream in my Department to fund projects that fall under the remit of the Arts Council.

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