Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion
Ms Sin?ad O'Reilly:
I am happy to pick up on the Deputy's remarks in respect of communities that experience disadvantage. We referred to the Creative Places programme, through which we are targeting places that have had little investment. In the Dublin area, Darndale, the Mac Uilliam estate in Tallaght and Loughlinstown and Ballybrack are in the programme. We are working with local community partners in those areas to see how to build sustained investment and opportunities for young people. There are high levels of young populations and diversity in those areas and the work with those groups takes a community development type of approach to sustaining that engagement. It is early days but it is great that we have three Dublin areas involved in the programme. We are beginning a research programme to consider the impact of that investment over a sustained period.
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