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

No, it has not. Culture 2025 is the framework policy document. I want to acknowledge the work done by this joint committee, particularly with regard to the report on the draft framework policy document. My Department is giving serious consideration to this report in preparing the final document. The committee has made some very helpful suggestions on the content and presentation of Culture 2025. The members will appreciate, however, that much progress has been made in cultural policy in the last year through the Creative Ireland programme, which I see as very much the delivery mechanism for the overall policy set out in Culture 2025. This connection is made very clear by the Irish version of the name, "Éire Ildánach", which is used both in the policy document and the implementation programme. Culture 2025 is the high level policy document, while Creative Ireland can be seen as the implementation of the goals set in that policy.

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