Ms Liz Meaney:

We support various genres of dance. The dance budget is predominantly for resource organisations and professional dance companies. We also support traditional dance through our traditional arts budget. We support youth dance through our young people and children in education in budget. Young people are a critical priority for the Arts Council. We have a programme called Creative Schools where we have creative associate artists working in 300 schools across the country. Many are dancers.

They are bringing those school children out into dance settings as well engaging with them, so they will have lived life as cultural citizens, where dance and the arts have meaning in their lives. All those different engagements are very important and are funded in a number of different ways.