Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a follow-up question. Many of my family members are artists. They often experience frustration when they create art as it is discussed as though it is a financial package or that everything in the arts must have a financial outcome. There is a lack of appreciation in the system - that is not the fault of a Minister or a Department - that the value of art is not always financially tangible. I know how relatives of mine who had Alzheimer's disease perked up at a piece of art, music or something else. One cannot put a price on the relief it gives them and their family and so on. As a society, we have moved somewhat towards everything needing to have a price. Departments may believe it is difficult for them to move money in a certain way or to allocate it without seeing from where the benefit will come.