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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: Under the Arts Act 2003, primary responsibility for the promotion of the arts at all levels throughout the country is devolved to the Arts Council. The Arts Council is the main channel of the State's current expenditure on the arts and will receive over €60 million in 2016. Issues in relation to the health services are a matter for the Minister for Health. The Arts Council's ten-year...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: Under the Arts Act 2003, primary responsibility for the promotion of the arts at all levels throughout the country is devolved to the Arts Council. The Arts Council is the main channel of the State's current expenditure on the arts and will receive over €60 million in 2016. The Arts Council’s ten-year strategy Making Great Art Work(2016-2025) set outs how it will lead the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff Data (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 422 and 423 together. The following table sets out the number of staff who were hired and those who retired or left the service since June 2011, when my Department was first established. The total number of full-time equivalent staff at the end of June 2016 is shown in the Table. This includes some 40 staff transferred in from the Department of the...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: First, I congratulate the Deputy Peadar Tóibín on being appointed Chairman of the committee. I also congratulate its members and look forward to working positively with all of them and the Chairman. Is mór agam an deis seo a fháil inniu chun Meastúcháin mo Roinne don bhliain seo a phlé. I am very pleased to have the opportunity to outline the priorities...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: More than €188 million is being provided in 2016 for the arts, culture and film sector, an increase of 20% on the figure for 2015, with a further €6.158 million being provided by way of a capital carry-over. A key driver of the increase in funding for the arts and in cultural expenditure in my Department in 2016 is the ongoing commemorations programme. The allocation in 2016 is...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: To take the last question first, I agree that investment in the arts, our culture and our heritage does a huge amount to improve deprived areas and, as the Deputy said, urban areas. That is a developing problem. The Arts Council strategy, Making Great Art Work, targets every sector of society. We have the Arts in Education Charter. We are working with the education sector to get young...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: We are broadly in line with the profile for the end of June.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: Yes, but I will come back to the Deputy with the figures. We have the May figures. The profile figure is €14 million. We keep very much in touch with the different projects in process. We maintain a lot of contact with them to try to have their budgets spent. Like the Deputy, I want to see every penny spent, but sometimes there are delays for different, sometimes very valid...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: I think that information might be available on the website. It may not be available for RAPID programme areas, but I will ask the Arts Council. It is available per county, but I will ask the Arts Council to provide us and the Deputy with the information sought. That will not be a problem.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: Again, the Arts Council would have responsibility for assessing and disbursing the funding provided to it. We did a value for money audit on the Arts Council and a good deal of information came through on that. The Arts Council has its policy, Making Great Art Work, and one of the issues I raised with it is the need to make sure there is a regional spread of the funding.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: The Arts Council would have those figures.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: We will provide them.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: Again, that is the Arts Council. There are 400 individual artists but there are 450 arts organisations. I raised this question with the Arts Council also. Many artists involved in some of the arts organisations get funding. It is the Arts Council which assesses those applications and decides who gets funding.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: Yes. It is under heritage.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: Sorry.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: Yes.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: I hope it will be set up before the summer recess. We are progressing that this week; we are working on that.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: In terms of Arts in Education, there is a committee chaired by Professor Coolahan. A sub-group has been set up on the Arts Rich Schools programme, which will report to the high level implementation group in the coming months. The Arts Council will be reporting to the high-level implementation group in the coming months. It is coming forward with some very good suggestions. The Deputy is...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: I accept what the Deputy saying but I would like to see more involvement by the Arts Council in that project. It has plans in its ten-year strategy on making great artwork. It plans to emphasise providing for children and young people specifically. I do not know how many counties have arts education officers. Cavan–Monaghan had one, namely the Deputy herself. I do not know the...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Heather Humphreys: It is a joint charter.