Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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984. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the yearly budget allocated to Culture Ireland; and the number of staff allocated per annum to the programme since 2008. [28258/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Details of the funding allocatedto the Culture Ireland Division of my Department since 2008 is outlined in the table below. The number of staff working in Culture Ireland was five in 2008 and this increased to the current complement of seven to cover increased workload including the delivery of the special programmes, Imagine Irelandin 2011 in the US; Culture Connects, the Culture Programme marking Ireland's Presidency of the EU in 2013; and I Am Ireland, the Centenary Programme in 2016. Culture Ireland Funding