Written answers

Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Arts Funding

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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654. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the budget spent on the provision of music tuition for children in each of the past 10 years. [23635/18]

Photo of Josepha MadiganJosepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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Music tuition includes a very broad spectrum of practitioners ranging from those employed at all levels in our schools, in university and college courses as well as private sector provision.

While my Department is not directly involved in tuition per se, my Department does support the wider sector through a number of initiatives for example:

- One of the commitments in the Creative Ireland Programme is that by 2022 every child will have access to tuition in Music, Drama, Art and Coding.  Creative Youth which  was launched in December 2017 is a plan to enable the creative potential of every child and young person.  The plan sets out measures to deliver on this  key goal  of the Creative Ireland Programme.  This Plan will be progressed over the next five years in partnership with the Department of Education and Skills, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and the Arts Council.  At this plan's core is a firm belief that creativity and culture should be at the heart of education for all our young people and I look forward to working with the Department's key partners to deliver this plan for all our children and young people.  This report can be accessed at the following link .

- Annual funding of €1.6m is provided to Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (CCÉ) in 2018 for its work in the protection and promotion of Irish traditional music and culture. CCÉ provides weekly classes at community level in all traditional instruments, singing, and dance through its network of centres and branches all over the country.

- My Department provides funding for the purchase of equipment under the Music Capital Scheme to performing groups and individual talented musicians. Support of €224,000 was recently under Scheme  for 2017/18. The Scheme is managed by Music Network on behalf of my Department. 

- Culture Ireland, provides supports for Irish artists and musicians to travel abroad and develop their careers.

The Arts Council also has a number of schemes and initiatives  around the support of music and details of these can be accessed on its website at the following link www.artscouncil.ie/available-funding/?searchquery=Music.

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