Ms Annette Nugent:

I will add a couple of things that have not come up. Something key is that arts infrastructure is an ecology. I cannot remember the names of any of the reports that say this but there are huge benefits to having artists and arts workers living in an area and being part of the community, rather than being entirely focused on spaces and hard infrastructure. It is a really important point that investment is needed in enabling artists to live in cities, towns and rural communities, as Dr. Holstead was saying. Another key spaces issue is access to public space. To pick up on what Ms O'Reilly said, if we are to reach the people who are not so engaged at the moment for whatever reason, such as lack of money or ease of access to public spaces, then we need access to public spaces. These are often called third spaces. There are no walls for people to engage in artistic and cultural activity that happens in public spaces. It is about being able to enable and support organisations. The work the Arts Council is doing in bringing art out of buildings and into streets and spaces is key as well.