Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the delegates very much for their presentations today. I welcome the visitors in the Gallery and also Professor Gary Granville. I have had the pleasure of working closely with most of the delegates in my previous career as an arts educator before I was elected to the Dáil. It is wonderful. Perhaps I know the work of some of the delegates better than that of others. I have a couple of questions. My first is an observation on which one of the delegates might comment. It is heartening that there are so many organisations that are so passionate about arts education. I did not hear the Art Teachers' Association of Ireland mentioned by anybody. Do any of the organisations represented today have someone from that association sitting on its committee or working with it directly?

With regard to Dr. Sweeney's comments on Music Generation, the nationwide roll-out involves quite an ambitious plan. Is the programme to be rolled out nationally by 2022, which is in four years? By then, it is to have no philanthropic support at all, just Government support. How many more partnerships have to be established if we are to reach the target?