Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 March 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

9:00 am

Ms Katherine Licken:

The Minister will launch our element of the national development plan in the coming weeks, when we will have more details. Certainly we will have schemes. We opened up the arts capital scheme in 2016, which was about funding capital development for arts facilities regionally. It has proved highly successful and we will build on it, which will be of interest from the Deputy's perspective. It is building on the experience of 2016 with regard to the level of participation and how culture is a safe space for people to engage. Recognising all this, putting money into regional cultural facilities will be a key element of the programme.

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