Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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595. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding the Arts Council received in 2015; and how it spent this funding. [12736/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I allocated a total of €58.593 million to the Arts Council in 2015. The Council, although funded by my Department, is statutorily independent in its day-to-day operations, and specifically in its funding decisions. Information on the Arts Council's funding schemes, funding decisions and the reasons for those decisions is available for each county through its funding decisions database at the following links:-