Ms Niamh Ní Chonchubhair:

I will respond to the first part. There are approximately 50 art centres under the remit of the Arts Council on the island of Ireland at the moment. A huge wave of those centres were built in the past 25 years, so there is perhaps an element of retrofitting required to fully accommodate access needs. There is absolutely a need for capital investment in some of that retrofitting. Beyond that, capacity-building work is happening and more is possible, including such elements as disability and equality training for teams on the ground who can interpret a variety of access needs based on individual artists or audience members who are experts on their own lived experience. Knowing what to ask, when to ask it, how to accommodate it, and when to just leave people be is quite seismic in being able to facilitate creativity and audiences without this huge capital investment. It would be key to see that developed and disseminated alongside any necessary infrastructural changes to these creative spaces.