Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Arts and Education: Discussion
1:30 pm
Ms Sinead Copeland:
I would like to add to that. Just building on what Dr. Sweeney said in regard to Creative Youth under pillar 1, we will probably focus this year and next year more on early years and primary and post-primary levels. However, under pillar 2, the community engagement piece, which is probably what was referenced earlier on, we have a great network of Creative Ireland co-ordinators who are working at local level, bringing all the different agencies together to bring that creativity forward as a lifelong objective. It is creativity for creativity's sake. For 2018, as part of the Creative Ireland programme, we will focus a lot on creativity and well-being and try to develop that space. It is not something on which we have done a huge amount of work yet, but it is something we will explore this year. We are taking on board the point that it does not stop when one is 18 years of age and we do need to develop that a bit further.
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