Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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208. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider proposals (details supplied) with regard to the live music industry. [36029/21]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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There are no plans to set up an agency as described by the Deputy. It would not be considered appropriate to seek to eliminate any element or elements of the sophisticated ecosystem that underpins the operation of the live music industry in Ireland. Such an intervention would constitute a State aid requiring EU approval that is unlikely to be forthcoming in the face of almost certain objections from the promoters and advertisers who earn their living in the sector.