Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 230: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if a decision will be reviewed to allow a grant to a band (details supplied) in County Tipperary which applied for assistance for participation in the International Youth Festival of Wind Orchestras in the Czech Republic in July 2004. [16152/04]

John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)
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Requests for financial assistance from Irish artists who wish to perform abroad are considered by the cultural relations committee, CRC, an independent body under my Department's aegis which then makes recommendations to me as Minister. The CRC has not recommended assistance in this instance and there do not appear to be any grounds for a review of its decision.