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Other Questions: Arts Funding (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: Under the heading Ensuring the Wellbeing of Ireland's Creative and Cultural Community, the task force report recommends the establishment of a programme to provide well-being supports to the creative sector. This is based on programmes such as Minding Creative Minds, an organisation established to offer a free 24-7 well-being and support programme for the Irish music sector. It provides...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2021 (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: The budget 2021 supports that we announced last month have been welcomed by all of the sectors that I represent. The Deputy has raised the question of what is Covid spending and what is in the budget on a number of occasions. A suite of funding measures, such as increased funding for the Arts Council, Screen Ireland and Sport Ireland, represent an acknowledgement of the important role these...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Policy (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the report of the arts and culture recovery task force, which was a commitment in the programme for Government, was published this week. The report included a recommendation that a universal basic income be piloted for a three-year period in the arts sector. I very much welcome this report and thank the task force members for their time, expertise and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Policy (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: I can speak to the recommendations as they came from this task force, which comprised a broad range of people involved in the screen sector, the artistic community, our cultural institutions and the live event industry. They identified ten key recommendations. The Deputy said the universal basic income was a well-established proposal, long before the pandemic, and would involve a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Policy (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: I thank the Deputy. In the interim, I hope he would know that I announced the successful applicants from the €5 million pilot programme in the July stimulus package. I will roll out €50 million in the new year to help the sector. The amount was increased to €50 million because the €5 million programme received €16.5 million worth of applications. This...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2021 (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: The 2021 total gross funding allocated to my Department, as per the budget Estimates, amounts to €1.082 billion. This represents an increase of €79 million, or 8%, on the 2020 allocation as published in the further Revised Estimates for my Department. Those Revised Estimates included additional funding of €183 million, secured during 2020, to deal with the impacts of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2021 (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: The 2021 total gross funding allocation to my Department, as per the Estimates, is €1.082 billion. This represents an increase of €79 million, or 8%, on the 2020 allocation, as per the Revised Estimates voted for the Department on 8 October 2020. The 2020 figures published as part of those further Revised Estimates included additional funding of €183 million, which was...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Census of Population (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: Since the publication online of the 1901 and 1911 Census returns, a huge volume of records have now been made available online that are invaluable to people in carrying out their own family history research.  On my Departments website;www.irishgenealogy.ie, it is now possible to view the historic Civil Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths which date back to 1864 and in the case of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Radio Broadcasting (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: I acknowledge the valuable source of reliable and trustworthy news that local radio offers in a time of uncertainty and with much disinformation in circulation.   Local radio also plays an important role in bringing communities together, strengthening their bonds of solidarity and mutual support. I recognise the challenges faced by the sector due to COVID-19 and am...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Capital Programme (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: The Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF) was launched in 2018 to provide Exchequer support for larger sports facility projects including swimming pools with at least €100m being made available over the period to 2027.  The criteria used for scoring applications was published in advance of the assessment work commencing. Amongst the criteria used in this...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: Since the foundation of the State, Government Departments and other public bodies follow the reporting of their activities and related matters by the media as a matter of course and have traditionally looked at newspapers.   In this increasingly digital age, reporting and public comment is no longer confined to the pages of newspapers and can often be found in online posts on social...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, my Department has funded a wide range of activities in the cultural sphere, many of which involve the online presentation of events that would normally have taken place live and in-person. These include a myriad of online performances, events such as Cruinniú na nÓg and a wide range of activities presented online by Ireland's...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Question Heading (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: The Government’s Plan for Living with COVID-19 is a risk management strategy designed to allow individuals, families, businesses and services to better understand, anticipate and prepare for the measures Government might introduce to control or reduce the transmission of COVID-19.  Each level of the framework contains a “basket” of measures which are intended,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Football Association of Ireland (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Minister for Transport, Tourism Sport and the association mentioned by the Deputy was a very important and necessary measure in enabling the Government to participate in a financial support package for the association in January of this year. The MOU enables Sport Ireland to restore funding to the association of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: As the Deputy will be aware my Department, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Service Management Act, 1997 Government Departments are required to prepare a draft Statement of Strategy within six months of the appointment of a new Minister.  The  process of preparing a draft Statement of Strategy for the three-year period from 2021 to 2023 is currently...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: Earlier in the month I announced the recipients of a pilot Live Performance Support Scheme to assist commercial venues, producers and promoters to plan live performances across the country over the coming months, with a total of 59 organisations benefitting from the scheme. The main objective of the scheme is to provide employment opportunities in the live performance sector while also...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reports (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: As the Deputy will be aware, I established the Night-time Economy Taskforce earlier this year on 30 July 2020 as one of the priority actions for my Department.  Key Government Departments and Agencies are represented on the Taskforce; a representative from Give us the Night and the Lord Mayors of Cork and Dublin are also members.   We know that COVID-19 has severely...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: The allocation to the Arts Council in 2021 is €130m, an increase of €50m on the initial Budget 2020 allocation of €80m and an increase of €25m on the 2020 Further Revised Estimate allocation of €105m. The increase reflects Government's acknowledgement of the important role that arts and culture play in our economy and society and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: The total gross capital allocation for my Department for 2021 is €185.9m representing an increase of €16.5m or 10% on the comparable figure for 2020.  Of this sum, an allocation of €60.7m relates to Arts and Culture projects and further details on the composition of this figure will be made available as part of the Revised Estimates 2021 due to be published by the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Catherine Martin: The management of both of these schemes is a matter for Fáilte Ireland, however I am informed that the COVID-19 Adaptation Grant Scheme for tourism businesses closed for expressions of interest on 31st October 2020.  Applicants have until the end of November to complete their applications. Fáilte Ireland assessments are ongoing and the number of applications...