Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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277. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the allocation her Department made to Fáilte Ireland in 2020 and 2021. [33575/21]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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Details (at subhead level) of the annual funding allocations provided by my Department to Fáilte Ireland are available in the annual Revised Estimates Volume published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The subheads of relevance to Fáilte Ireland in 2021 are A3, A6 and A5 (shared with Tourism Ireland) and further detail is available in the Agency Statement for Fáilte Ireland in the Revised Estimates Volumes.  In 2020 the subheads of relevance were E3, E6 and E5.

Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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278. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the allocation her Department made to Tourism Ireland in 2020 and 2021. [33576/21]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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Tourism Ireland is funded through the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland. Funding drawn down from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in 2020 amounted to €53,698,000 and for 2021 the amount allocated is €58,065,000.

The breakdown of the total Exchequer provision for tourism services from my Department's vote is available in the annual Revised Estimates Volume (REV) for Public Services, which is published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and available on that Department's website.

Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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279. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the allocation her Department made to RTÉ separate to monies allocated from the licence fee; and the breakdown of the allocation in 2020 and 2021. [33577/21]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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RTE is dual funded from commercial revenue and licence fee receipts. 

There was no funding allocated to RTE in 2020, other than in respect of  the licence fee. 

The only additional funding allocated by my Department in 2021 was in respect of the funding agreed to support Irish language broadcasting in Northern Ireland alongside the New Decade, New Approach agreement.

In 2021, this will amount to funding of  €100,000 for RTE to support the promotion of Irish language broadcasting in Northern Ireland. 

In the interest of completeness, my Department from time to time enters into arrangements for the production of broadcast material relating to programmes including, for example, commemorations and the Creative Ireland programme.