Dr. Ailbhe Murphy:

Our primary funder is the Arts Council of Ireland. It funds us through a programme called strategic funding, which covers our core costs. Our annual grant this year was €375,000, which is an increase. We are a revenue-funded organisation of Dublin City Council. We moved from project funding to revenue, which is an additional €10,000 a year. On top of that, we fundraise. We partner with many other organisations in the arts and outside the arts to see what opportunities we might be able to create for artists. For example, from 2014 to 2018 we were the lead partner in a Creative Europe project. There were nine organisations across six countries and there was a budget of €2.84 million. The project budget was €1.4 million across all of those partners, and we had a fundraising target then to match that. The core funding is how we operate. It is what pays our salaries, and we get additional funds for a lot of our programme. We apply every year to the Arts Council for that fund.