Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein)
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I welcome the Minister and I thank her for her presentation. On the doubling of funding, I accept that the Minister cannot give any commitments this close to the budget despite the seven-year commitment in this regard but Governments have a responsibility not to make promises they cannot keep and to keep every commitment they make. When the Taoiseach referred to a doubling of arts funding was he referring to a doubling of departmental funding, capital and current, or to a doubling of funding for the Arts Council? I ask the Minister to outline what she believes the commitment of a doubling of funding entails, in terms of allocations rather than areas.