Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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Officials in my Department have prepared the following table to outline the relevant expenditure incurred by the Department for the 18 month period(01/01/2019-30/06/2020) specified by the Deputy.

Theme	Expenditure 2019	Expenditure H1 2020	Theme Elements
Armistice Day	€60,750	n/a	State-led commemoration of the end of the First World War at Glasnevin Cemetery
Book & eBook of the 2016 speeches by President Higgins	€21,060	n/a	Comóradh agus Ceiliúradh Céad Bliain - Óráidí ón Uachtarán Micheál D. Ó hUigínn
Community expression	€290,495	Payments to local authorities will be made in quarters 3 and 4 2020.	Local authority funding and stand-alone community commemorations
Digital Services	€153,374	€74,272	www.decadeofcentenaries.com; www.rte.ie/history; Century Ireland
Hedge school programme	€13,940	€4,548	Series of hedge schools delivered by partner History Ireland
Local Authority Forum	€7,624		March 2019 gathering of Local Authority Decade of Centenaries Co-ordinators at National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks
Markievicz Award*	€80, 536	€92,000	Artists bursary (€20k per award, 5 awards per annum) (*drawdown of full award can extend over 2 years)
Pop-up museum	€434,090	€42,536	100 Years of Women in Politics and Public Life (exhibition) - installed at Coach House Gallery, Dublin Castle (on two occasions), Limerick City & County Hall, Donegal County Museum, Roscommon County Hall, and 23 Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Role of labour	€20,636		NUIG conference November, 2019 with associated ICTU event.
Women’s Strand	€37,900	€9,050	Support for awareness raising re. role of women in historical events being marked by centenaries programme - Women’s History Association of Ireland; Lyric Dublin; National Women’s Council of Ireland; NUI symposium, Political Voices: the Participation of Women in Irish Public Life, 1918-2018

With reference to commemorative events, these are undertaken in the main by local stakeholders supported by local authorities or directly by my Department. No State-led ceremonial events were undertaken by my Department during this period. The Deputy should note that the Department allocated €10,000 to each Local Authority in both 2019 and 2020 to develop their own commemorative programmes, many of which include commemorative events. Details of all events can be found on www.decadeofcentenaries.com. If the Deputy has a query in relation to any specific event, I will arrange for the details to be provided.