Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The justification for handing this funding to Creative Ireland is "to accelerate its programme". Is there an effort on the part of Creative Ireland to eclipse the Arts Council? The Arts Council's own ten-year strategy, Making Great Art Work, was published, strangely enough, without any reference whatsoever to the Department's own ten-year cultural policy, Culture 2025, which is supposed to be the foundation document of the control of arts funding. People are worried that more money is now going into controlling this in the background. Perhaps we are getting it wrong; I am only expressing the concerns of people involved in the area.

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