Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 1010: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received any requests to financially support the Irish Performing Arts Festival which will be hosted by the Cope Foundation and tale place in Cork city and county between 27 June and 30 June 2012; if any funding including National Lottery funding has been allocated to the festival; the support that has been given to the festival in recent years; his views that the festival has been of benefit to persons with intellectual disabilities and autism in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26769/12]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The funding of festivals and events is an operational matter for Fáilte Ireland. However, I understand that Failte Ireland have no record of receiving an application in respect of the Irish Performing Arts Festival.