Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Last week in response to my Topical Issue matter on dancing, the Minister confirmed that the Arts Council would publish new guidelines this week. Today the Arts Council has advised community centres, which require the guidelines for insurance reasons to allow one-to-one dance practice to continue, that they will not have those guidelines for a number of weeks. The Arts Council has cited approval from the Taoiseach's office as a reason for the delay.

It is imperative that we get this confusion cleared up and have the Arts Council guidelines published in the next week. Until then, the Minister has confirmed that the Sport Ireland guidelines are applicable, but it would be helpful if we could get the guidelines published.

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