Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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64. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects to announce successful applicants under stream 3 of the arts and culture capital scheme which is targeted at small voluntary arts centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40529/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Stream 3 of the Arts and Culture Capital Scheme 2016-2018 is geared towards providing capital grants of up to €20,000 to not-for-profit organisations with a defined arts and cultural remit. I opened this scheme for applications in May 2017 with a closing date was 16 June 2017.

Grants under this scheme will make a significant difference to individual arts and culture organisations which include small arts centres, theatres, galleries, museums, heritage centres, archives as well as artist studios and creative and performance spaces.

I am happy to inform the Deputy that on 4 August this year I announced funding for 60 projects under the scheme. Funding of more than €745,000 will be made available to these projects over the coming year. A wide variety of projects will benefit including IT related projects, new lighting and sound systems, seating, staging and storage and the improvement of digital facilities.

In addition to this funding which I announced last month, I also provided funding of over €9 million under Stream 1 and 2 of the Arts and Culture Capital Scheme earlier this year. This is benefitting a further 62 organisations. This investment is an important way of supporting the arts in the regions and ensuring that people right across the country can access quality cultural facilities.

Details of all grants are available on my Department's website