Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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233. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are grants available to help authors of children’s books publish their work. [22796/25]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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Primary support for the arts in Ireland is delivered by the Arts Council. Under the Arts Act 2003, the Arts Council has primary responsibility for the development of the arts in Ireland and Budget 2025 has provided record funding of €140 million for the Arts Council. The Arts Council operates within a published ten-year strategic framework entitled Making Great Art Work and they support and develop the arts in Ireland through grant funding, project awards, support to individual artists, and support to venues, publications and resource organisations.

Funding has also been provided to Literature Ireland by the Arts Council. A not-for-profit organisation, Literature Ireland (known as Ireland Literature Exchange until 2016) is in operation since 1995. They have funded the translation of over 2,000 works of Irish literature into 56 languages around the world.

Literature Ireland’s services include:

• Running a translation grant programme for publishers to fund the translation of literature from Ireland into foreign languages, and the translation of foreign literature into English or Irish.
• Operating a residential bursary programme for literary translators.
• Attending international book fairs and festivals and managing the Irish national stands at the London and Frankfurt book fairs.
• Support for international author and translator events.
• Providing information to publishers, agents, translators, writers and other interested parties.
• Publishing and distributing New Writing from Ireland and other publications.
• Participating in international literary translation projects.