Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Artists are supported through the Arts Council, but I accept the Deputy's point that some artists find it difficult to make progress.

The Culture 2025 document will protect and set out clearly the value of the arts and our culture, which is of importance. Culture 2025 aims to develop a national cultural policy which will set out high level aims and policies in the area between now and 2025. We need to understand what culture is, how it can be supported, the role of Government in developing it, how we can use social media to deliver it to everyone and how to get people involved in music, drama, poetry, film, writing and so on. It is not about how much money we need, but about how we value and support our culture. We will look at that in our consideration of the Culture 2025 policy.

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