Written answers
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Arts Funding
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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791. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the average annual expenditure on the arts as a percentage of gross domestic product; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34484/15]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Expenditure on the arts in Ireland comes from multiple sources, both public and private. I understand that the CSO does not produce national statistics that capture the totality of this expenditure as a percentage of GDP. My Department’s expenditure on the arts is, in the main, directed through the Arts Council. That expenditure is published annually in the Revised Estimates Volumes at .
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