Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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593. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of all funding allocated to the Arts in 2015 by specific category such as film, theatre, and so on. [12734/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Most of my Department's arts and culture budget is allocated to the cultural institutions and agencies under its remit. Within these allocations, the Arts Council is the primary State agency for funding the arts in Ireland. Details of the Arts Council's expenditure including its individual grants are published on the Arts Council's website at . Details of the funding allocations made available to my Department are published each year in the Revised Estimates Volume with the outturn published in the annual Appropriation Account. These publications are available on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform at www.per.gov.ieand on the website of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General at www.audgen.gov.ie.

Where my Department makes direct grants to organisations, the figures are published on the website of my Department at

and .

It should be noted that the support provided directly by my Department for the arts primarily relates to capital investment in arts infrastructure.

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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594. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding she provided to each local authority for the arts for 2015. [12735/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Funding for local authority arts programmes is provided by the Arts Council under the Local Authority grant scheme. The purpose of the scheme is to support the ongoing programme and strategic actions of the local authority arts services in developing the arts locally. Further details are available on the website of the Council at My Department does not directly fund local authority arts programmes, but would provide specific capital funding for projects nationwide. This is done on a project by project basis rather than on a local authority basis. Details of these grants are available on the website of my Department at www.ahg.gov.ie

As part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme, my Department made funding available to local authorities specifically for the purpose of arranging local commemoration projects. Each local authority appointed a special co-ordinator to lead on the development of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme for each county - further information is available at the following link .