Peadar Tóibín
Question:593. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of all funding allocated to the arts in 2015 by specific category such as film, theatre, and so on. [12734/16]
View answerTuesday, 31 May 2016
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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/. Details 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.
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.
It should be noted that the support provided directly by my Department for the arts primarily relates to capital investment in arts infrastructure.