Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 May 2016
624. Deputy Kate O'Connell asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding provided to all branches of the arts over the past five years in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9915/16]
View answerDetails of the funding allocations made available to my Department are published each year in the Revised Estimates Volume with the outturn published in the annual Appropriation Account. These publications are available on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform at www.per.gov.ie and on the website of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General at www.audgen.gov.ie. Most of my Department's arts and culture budget is allocated to the cultural institutions and agencies under its remit. Within these allocations, the Arts Council is the primary State agency for funding the arts in Ireland. Details of the Arts Council's expenditure including its individual grants are published on the Arts Council's website at http://www.artscouncil.ie/home/.
Where my Department makes direct grants to organisations, the figures are published on the website of my Department at http://www.ahg.gov.ie/arts/creative-arts/grants-and-funding/
and http://www.ahg.gov.ie/arts/culture/grants-and-funding.
The figures for 2016 will be published in due course. It should be noted that the support provided directly by my Department for the arts primarily relates to capital investment in arts infrastructure. The information on the website indicates in each case the county in which the project is situated.
