Ms Loretta Yurick:

What about the primary care takers? We were also involved in Healthy Ireland. I think Senator O'Donnell is on to something there. I wrote the articles and memorandum for Dance Ireland and I am trying to represent professional dancers. I am also speaking about dance being poised to have a huge impact creatively and health-wise in Ireland, for obesity, for young people, and for older people. The Arts Council is funding professional dance and many research organisations and outreach programmes. I make applications to the HSE, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, the Arts Council, the Ireland Fund, Bealtaine and to lots of things. We need a vanguard and we look to Government because Creative Ireland and Healthy Ireland seem to be a place where the impact of dance could be felt on a very large scale. Dance is always with music. Mucic is an incredible part of the power of what we deliver.