Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Offaly, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is a good approach to the Creative Ireland programme to have a culture team and that it is recognised in local authorities, as the Minister has acknowledged and recognised. The local authorities can bring those policies down to a local level. We saw that last year local authorities worked with communities. What communities can do when encouraged and given support is extraordinary. I looked at ireland.ieearlier and it is very good. There is scope to expand it and I imagine that is being considered. I would also like to ask the Minister to consider a report from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in 2015, which examined the potential for job creation, innovation and balanced economic development in the creative economy where the tri-sector categorisation of the creative economy included creative expression, application and technology. It fits in perfectly to Creative Ireland.

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