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- 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.
- 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 reports to both Ministers. I have not had an opportunity to meet it since my appointment but I hope to be able to do so very shortly. I am very conscious of 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: That carryover concerned capital projects. Sometimes, in spite of having the best will in the world, one does not finish a house when expected. That is where the money needs to be carried over. The money is still needed to finish the project. There is a very fine arts centre in west Cork. We have been supporting it. Sometimes there are good reasons why money is not spent, although I...
- 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 issue of the regional arts centres has been raised with me on a number of occasions. During the downturn, there was very little capital investment in many arts centres across the country. I was glad it was agreed, in the context of the budget for 2016, to have a grant scheme for regional arts centres. The applications and guidelines are being finalised. I hope to have the scheme...
- 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: The Film Board does tremendous work and has supported a number of successful films such as "Brooklyn" and "Room". In 2016 it has supported up to six creative feature film co-productions, ten documentary feature films for cinema release and the production of four animated TV series. It supports the development of TV drama productions in English and Irish and for cinema distribution....
- 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 main cross-Border spend in the Department comes under North-South co-operation, on which there is a small arts measure. For example, the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland is based in Dundalk. Members may have been fortunate enough to attend the start of the 1916 commemoration ceremonies and the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland performed at an event in the National Concert Hall. It was...
- 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 current funding for co-operation with Northern Ireland is €160,000.
- 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: Funding for the running of the arts centres is provided by the Arts Council. I do not provide any direct funding for the running of arts centres. The local authorities are involved at local level. Like the Deputy, I believe the community services programme is great. I was able to assist in a programme not too far from me at home. There are arts involved in addition to community...
- 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: Part of the problem was storage in the National Archives. We have invested in this and work is ongoing to improve the storage facility in the archives. We will continue to work with the National Archives on this.