Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion

Ms Jane Daly:

I will respond to the point on international best practice. Over the past five years during which we have been working on this, we have been working and engaging with international organisations such as a safe arts body in Australia and, most recently, the international network for contemporary performing arts, IETM, which published a report at the same time we did entitled Gender and Power Relations, a call for structural change. What we have learned from engaging with international partners is that this is a worldwide issue. It is happening across the arts sector in every country. Everybody is facing the same challenges. There is nothing unusual about what is happening in Ireland. One of the recommendations is we work with international partners to find the best solutions and to identify those best practices internationally that Deputy Mythen has mentioned so that we can see what can be implemented here and have the same impact. That is why we call for further research in the report. That is just some information on the sort of engagement we are having abroad.

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