Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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47. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of Culture 2025 on recommendations that are outside the Creative Ireland Programme. [47339/18]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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Since the publication of the Culture 2025 Draft Framework Policy in 2016, following a major consultation exerciese, a huge amount has happened in Irish cultural policy. The impact of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme had a transformative effect and led to the development of the Government's Creative Ireland Programme 2017-2022.

The Creative Ireland Programme 2017-2022 was launched in December 2016 as the legacy programme of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme and as the main implementation vehicle for the priorities identified in Culture 2025. The Creative Ireland Programme was underpinned by the aims and key values of Culture 2025.

As these two documents were developed at the same time they have naturally informed one another. The Culture 2025 Draft Framework Policy, which was published in July 2016, stated that the publication of the policy would be followed up with the development of a cross-sectoral plan which would be guided by the priorities set out in that document.

In reality the Creative Ireland Programme was developed as an action plan and therefore it is the intention that implementation of many of the goals and aspirations set out in the final Culture 2025 document will be carried out under the Creative Ireland Programme 2017-2022.

It is envisaged that Culture 2025 will give overall direction to future iterations of the Creative Ireland Programme as well as guiding the Government's approach to culture policy across all sectoral areas.

With this in mind, my Department is putting together the final version of the Culture 2025 document, which will be completed in the coming weeks and brought to Government for approval and subsequent publication. This final version has been restructured to ensure coherence with the development of the Creative Ireland Programme over the past two years, and other developments in the cultural area, and to clearly distinguish between the high level policy Culture 2025 framework and the more action orientated Creative Ireland Programme.