Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 26 July 2017
621. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the full year cost of increasing spending on the arts to 0.2%, 0.3% and 0.6% of GDP respectively. [36362/17]
View answerGDP figures are published on the website of the Central Statistics Office at www.cso.ie.
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 and on the website of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General.
The 2017 allocation to the Arts, Culture and Film Division of my Department is €158.261m. Most of this is allocated to the agencies under the aegis of the Department, including the Arts Council and Film Board, however, this does not represent all expenditure on the Arts in Ireland.
