Ms Tania Banotti:

We are thrilled that Professor Ciarán Benson, who wrote the first report 40 years ago for the Arts Council about arts in schools, is chairing that committee. We have people from the inspectorate in the Department of Education and Skills. I am surprised to hear what the Senator says. We hear quite the opposite from the Arts Council. It says that since Creative Ireland has arrived, it has never had such close contact with the Department of Education and Skills in developing this initiative. That is where I think the benefit of this is. We will be gone in five years but the Department of-----