Kate O'Connell
Question:54. Deputy Kate O'Connell asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she intends to publish Culture 2025, the national cultural policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13112/16]
View answerWednesday, 1 June 2016
Questions (54, 67)
Mary Lou McDonald
Question:67. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to update Dáil Éireann on the progress of Culture 2025. [13267/16]
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 54 and 67 together.
Significant progress has been made in drafting the first National Cultural Policy - Culture 2025. This followed a major public consultation process in 2015, including a national cultural workshop held in October at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.
Work by my Department, the expert steering group and a wider expert committee continued on the document in early 2016 and is currently on-going.
The Programme for a Partnership Government commits to the publication of Culture 2025 as a priority and I intend to submit the draft policy to Government for consideration in the coming weeks. As I have stated previously, this first such policy will be a living document and will form the basis of an on-going dialogue with all who are interested in cultural policy.