Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is important we clarify a matter because misinformation is perhaps creeping out into the public domain as to how the LPRGS is going to work. If I am a venue owner in Athlone and I secured funding under the LPSS, the maximum grant under which was, as far as I recall, in the order of €100,000 at the time, will the Minister clarify what I was required to do to make the case for that funding? Was I to stage one or a number of performances? Was I to provide definitive proof that those performances took place and who took part in them? With the implementation of the LPRGS, I fully suspect those who are already part of the branch aid system and who have registered their presence on the Department's system will see this as an opportunity to apply again because the bureaucratic burden on them will be much less, and thankfully so. What will they be required to do this time? If the same venue in Athlone succeeded in securing another €100,000, what would it need to have proven to the Minister it had done to support the creation of art and the people involved in that creation?