Terence Flanagan
Question:699 Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the locations the money and funding in Budget 2008 for arts has gone to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36063/07]
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Questions (631, 632)
Terence Flanagan
Question:700 Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of funding that went into the arts in Budget 2008; if he will provide a breakdown of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1091/08]
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 699 and 700 together.
In Budget 2008 my Department was directly allocated €208.457m for Arts and Culture purposes. These funds are allocated under subheads D.1 to D.10 of my Department's vote (35), indicating the distribution of this funding as between the agencies, cultural institutions and other areas of my Department's responsibility for 2008. Vote 33 allocated a further €12.610 million to National Gallery of Ireland, a National Cultural Institution under my aegis and an additional €23.894 million was allocated in the Office of Public Work vote for capital works at Cultural Institutions. I would refer the Deputy to the Budget Book 2008 for details on the specific allocations.