Louis O'Hara (Galway East, Sinn Fein)
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205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 506 of 30 September 2025, the plans to allow private independent music schools access to funding for the delivery of subsidised music lessons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53434/25]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Further to PQ 52019/25, my Department currently has no plans to provide funding to private independent music schools. In regard to non-mainstream music education, my Department provides funding annually to Music Generation to support the provision of performance music education to children and young people, as well as to support the schools of music in four Education and Training Boards (ETBs). In December 2017, as part of the Creative Youth Plan, Government announced its commitment to support the roll-out of Music Generation nationwide by 2022. The commitment to funding Music Generation was continued in the successor Creative Youth Plan of 2023-2027, and is also reflected in the Programme for Government.