Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Creative Ireland has been very good at bringing people around the table and bringing stakeholders together. The statement the Minister of State has made is very helpful for my own information. I will analyse it.

There is undoubted success from the Creative Youth programme. I look forward to meeting with more facilitators, artists and schools that have taken part to get their sense of that. Schools are provided with €4,000 and I wonder if that is enough. Are we reaching as many schools as we can? Is there room for an increased budget in order to reach more schools and more after-school environments?

I welcome the fact that discussions are again under way about the roadmap for the creative industries. We were promised that roadmap in 2019. As I said before, there is a blockage somewhere. From the outside it is difficult for me to see where that is. I hope that will be published as soon as possible so that we can have sight of it and start the implementation. A good deal of resources go into that work and it will not be relevant forever.