Written answers

Wednesday, 26 July 2017

Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Arts Funding

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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621. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the full year cost of increasing spending on the arts to 0.2%, 0.3% and 0.6% of GDP respectively. [36362/17]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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GDP figures are published on the website of the Central Statistics Office at .

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 and on the website of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General.

The 2017 allocation to the Arts, Culture and Film Division of my Department is €158.261m. Most of this is allocated to the agencies under the aegis of the Department, including the Arts Council and Film Board, however, this does not represent all expenditure on the Arts in Ireland.

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