Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

Impact of Covid-19 on the Entertainment Sector: Discussion

Mr. Liam Fitzgerald:

I will try my best. With regard to the LPSS, as I said, the pilot seemed to have a lot of success before Christmas and quite a few hundred artists were involved in the various types. Hopefully there will be more rounds of the scheme but the way this particular round of it can be best implemented in terms of spreading the love, so to speak, is to embrace as many different types of entertainment as possible within it. Many sectors managed to move quite quickly the last time. Live music was quite well represented but other sectors of entertainment and art did not get off the mark quite as quickly and areas like electronic dance music and so on were not represented the last time. We will probably see more submissions on the likes of that this time. Opening it to as many different facets of the industry as possible will be the key to getting as much of the funding to trickle down to as wide a footprint as possible.

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