Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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251. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of the current and capital costs associated with the creative climate action competitive fund. [33439/21]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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The Creative Ireland Programme is a culture-based, all-of-government initiative led by my Department, the core proposition of which is that participation in cultural activity by everyone drives personal and collective creativity, with significant implications for individual and societal well-being and achievement. The Programme for Government has a commitment to “Support Creative Ireland in engaging the public on climate change through the creative and cultural sectors initiative”. To date, the Creative Ireland Programme has engaged with representatives across the creative, cultural, climate and public sector to help identify the potential of creative and cultural public engagement to contribute to climate action.

In March 2021 my Department, in collaboration with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, launched the Creative Climate Action fund to create partnerships that connect the public sector and the creative sector in order to enhance public engagement with climate change. This is a current rather than a capital-funded competitive scheme. It is seeking creative and cultural projects that can meaningfully connect people with the profound changes that are happening in our environment, society and economy arising from climate change, and can transform that connection into behaviour change or climate action.

Applications were invited under Strand 1 - An open call to organisations, NGOs, charities, enterprises, institutions and collectives/networks working with creative and cultural practitioners, and  Strand 2 - A closed call to local authorities, either individually, with other local authorities or external partners.

The deadline has now closed for applications and further details will be available once the successful projects are announced.