Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

Question 121: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the way the failure of budget 2008 to provide the Arts Council with multi-annual funding or an increase in funding above the rate of inflation equates with his Department's stated goal of creating an environment which enables arts and culture to flourish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4769/08]

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