Mr. Conor Falvey:

Perhaps, but it built on the legacy. That has been a permanent legacy coming out of the 1916 commemorations.

More broadly, funding is available for several different strands under the proposed budget for 2020 - although it is not yet finalised - for cultural institutions and local authorities. We are keeping that in contingency to try to support good initiatives that come forward. We have funding available for the creative strand and we are looking to engage with stakeholders, including arts practices, which come forward with proposals in that area. People are coming forward. We hope to have an ambitious and appropriate level to commemorate the events in mind with the advice of the expert advisory committee.

I will come back to my original point. In many ways, the Creative Ireland programme grew out of the project office in the Department organically.