Ms Bridget Webster:

It is Dance Ireland, which is the representative body for the people who make dance, encompassing production companies and individual artists.

On the last point, I agree with what was said about the work for young people. We were very lucky with Francis Footwork and to be involved in the children's council programme that is run through The Ark, where children have an input as to how work is created. We also have our participation activity project which called Broadreach. It accesses around 5,000 people a year from primary schools to older people. We have many projects for people aged 50 plus who collaborate with Age and Opportunity in the Bealtaine Festival. We run a number of different projects with Dublin City Council.

To return to the points made by everyone, the core thing is that everyone agrees the pot is not big enough, but that is the pot. How does one use those resources most effectively to be able to deliver what one can with the capacity one has? In our experience, it is about collaboration. If one has time, one has the possibility to move outside one's own box, to work with the Department of Health and with national and international agencies to access other strands of funding and develop those projects that can embed creative capacity in a meaningful way. That is how we would look at it.

I totally echo what Ms Yurick said about dance and health and the immediate benefits one sees when working with older people. This is exactly the same with younger people and children. With "The Wolf and Peter", we worked together with the St. Patrick's College, now DCU Institute of Education, where we were in residence for three years, to develop a digital resource for educators that is freely available on the arts and education portal. It includes four lesson plans for educators to use in their own schools. This is a series of workshop programmes for children aged six to ten. We will develop a new one in tandem with Francis Footwork. It is about slowly but surely building capacity at every angle, so that people grow up with dance in their lives in a more effective way.