Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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324. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for which 27 artists declined the offer of the basic income for the arts. [51918/22]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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As expected not all applicants were in a position to avail of the Basic Income for the Arts Pilot Research Scheme (BIA) and 27 or 1.4% turned down the grant for a variety of reasons including no longer living in Ireland, having taken up full-time education and no longer working in the arts.

When an applicant was declining their offer, we did not make giving a reason mandatory. The question that was asked on the ‘Decline Offer Form’ was: If you wish, please explain your reason(s) for declining your offer of the BIA grant. This is helpful from a research point of view as it will record the reasons applicants declined the BIA Pilot payment.

Applicants gave the following reasons:

I wanted to ensure that all 2,000 places were availed of, therefore all eligible applicants who were not previously selected to participate were included in further randomised selection to fill the 27 places. These have now been allocated and the applicants notified.