Richard Boyd Barrett
Question:499. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the estimated full year cost of funding for the arts to 0.6% of GDP and 0.6% of GNI*. [41258/21]
View answerTuesday, 27 July 2021
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The 2020 preliminary figure for Ireland's Gross Domestic Product at current market prices as published by the Central Statistics Office on 15 July 2021 is €372,869 million and 0.6% of this is €2,237 million.
The equivalent figure for Gross National Income at current market prices published on the same date is €283,735 million and 0.6% of this figure is €1,702 million.
Full details are available at www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-nie/nie2020/mainaggregates/
The Deputy may also wish to note that the European Union publishes data on the share of general government expenditure on cultural services, broadcasting and publishing services. This is based on data gathered by Eurostat as part of the data collection exercise on government expenditure. Under this process, the general government sector is defined as consisting of institutional units which are non-market producers whose output is intended for individual and collective consumption, and are financed by compulsory payments made by units belonging to other sectors, and institutional units principally engaged in the redistribution of national income and wealth. The general government sector comprises central government, state government, local government and social security funds.
The latest published data, for 2019, can be found at ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Culture_statistics_-_government_expenditure_on_cultural,_broadcasting_and_publishing_services&oldid=524139. It shows that the general government expenditure on cultural services, broadcasting and publishing services in Ireland in that year was in line with the EU average.