Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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342. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to set out the number of persons who are paid a salary from her Department's budget, either directly or indirectly, through funding agencies such as the Arts Council; and the level of salary to the nearest €10,000 (details supplied). [17254/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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One of the primary support mechanisms for the arts and heritage sectors and for the Gaeltacht is funding provided by my Department through the Arts Council, the Heritage Council, Údarás na Gaeltachta and other statutory agencies. It is primarily a matter for these agencies to decide how their funding should be allocated across the range of programmes supported in 2016. I am advised that in certain cases this funding may indirectly support salaries in the sector. My Department does not, however, hold comprehensive statistics, such as requested by the Deputy, of these cases.

For completeness, the following tables show the breakdown, by salary band, of the numbers of persons paid a salary directly by my Department or by the bodies under the aegis of my Department, as of March 2016.

Agencies

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Department of Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht