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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 387. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has agreed to carry over funding for the 1916 commemoration to the general arts, culture and film programme to 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11677/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 409. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the approach she is taking to ensure that the €50 million spent in 2017 on commemoration will be retained in the arts budget for 2017 for the benefit of the arts and culture nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11702/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 388. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the Government will commit to the long-term goal of increasing arts funding to the European average of 0.6% of GDP. [11678/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 389. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase funding in the arts over the lifetime of the Government; and her views on whether funding for the Arts Council and Irish Film Board should be doubled. [11679/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 408. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the recent comments by the outgoing artistic director of the Gate Theatre (details supplied) that the Arts Council should be getting three or four times the amount it receives from the Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11701/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 390. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will create an arts capital fund, modelled after the sports capital fund, to ensure better long term funding for Irish arts. [11680/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 391. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will liaise with the Minister for Social Protection to examine the supports for working artists in the social welfare system; and if the Government will relax activation rules for working artists to allow them to support themselves. [11681/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 392. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to pursue more applications for UNESCO world heritage status for more of Ireland's national landmarks (details supplied). [11682/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 393. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way she will work with her colleague the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure that parents can access second level education through Irish, especially in areas with proven demand for Gaelscoileanna. [11683/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 394. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide extra funding to Gaeltacht areas to encourage greater use of the language and better economic prospects for those living in Gaeltacht areas. [11684/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 395. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way she plans to ensure arts funding is used to ensure minority and new Irish voices are heard as part of cultural output. [11685/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 402. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will work with the Minister for Health to develop and roll out an arts and health strategy across acute and children’s hospitals and across the community health sector; and the other innovative approaches being considered to use the arts as a means to promote wellbeing across society. [11694/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 403. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action she is taking with her Government colleagues to systematically address social, geographic and economic barriers to full participation in the artistic and cultural life of the country, particularly for children and young persons. [11695/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 396. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to support the development of the creative industries sector; if she has reviewed the report from the previous Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on the hearings in relation to Examining the Potential for Job Creation, Innovation and Balanced Economic Development in the Creative Economy; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts in Education Charter (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 397. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has liaised with the Minister for Education and Skills on the development of contemporary art education at primary and secondary level in schools. [11688/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 398. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to develop a national cultural strategy up to 2025. [11689/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 399. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to develop musical education and instruments available to young persons and the general population through facilitating schools, youth groups and libraries in enhancing their music resources and the provision of access to musical training and instruments for the benefit of local communities. [11690/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 400. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has examined proposals to facilitate on a national basis the use of vacant retail premises by exhibiting artists, based on successful schemes such as (details supplied) which uses empty retail units to support local artists. [11691/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Promotion (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 401. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will examine a nationwide plan for the development of village design statements that would ensure all future planning and development takes full cognisance of the historic character and protect the character and heritage of villages. [11692/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts in Education Charter (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 404. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans in place to ensure the better integration of the arts into education and broadening the focus on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) into science, technology, engineering, arts and maths (STEAM); and if she will expand the ambition and resourcing of the Arts and Education Charter and continue to work with...