Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 16 October 2014
210. Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding allocated each year to the public lending remuneration scheme (details supplied), which is a form of payment to authors for the loan of their books to public libraries; if, in the future, the amount of funding allocated each year may be made public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39570/14]
View answerThe amounts paid under the public lending remuneration scheme each year are available in the Annual Reports of An Chomhairle Leabharlanna up to 2012. The 2012 data are available also in the Annual Report for that year of the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) and the data will continue to be published in the LGMA Annual Reports.
These Reports have been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas and are available in the Oireachtas Library.
