Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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67. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to update Dáil Éireann on the progress of Culture 2025. [13267/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 54 and 67 together.

Significant progress has been made in drafting the first National Cultural Policy - Culture 2025. This followed a major public consultation process in 2015, including a national cultural workshop held in October at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.

Work by my Department, the expert steering group and a wider expert committee continued on the document in early 2016 and is currently on-going.

The Programme for a Partnership Government commits to the publication of Culture 2025as a priority and I intend to submit the draft policy to Government for consideration in the coming weeks. As I have stated previously, this first such policy will be a living document and will form the basis of an on-going dialogue with all who are interested in cultural policy.