Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Question:206. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the total final expenditure on the live performance restart rant scheme. [32129/22]
View answerTuesday, 21 June 2022
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The Live Performance Restart Grant Scheme (LPRGS) was launched in March to provide a new grant for businesses engaged in staging live events in the arts and culture live performance sector. This scheme will support the live entertainment sector by providing business re-start grants to de-risk the planning of events across spring and summer of 2022 and to assist with the costs of reopening.
186 grants have been offered to date under the Live Performance Restart Grant Scheme with grants of €14.7m offered to date. 20 applicants were unsuccessful. A number of cases are still under consideration at present and these figures may therefore change slightly.
None of the live performance schemes have been oversubscribed and there has been sufficient funding available to provide grants to all eligible applicants.
This funding I believe has been essential to help underpin the recovery of the sector post pandemic. It has been great to see the hundreds of events and gigs happening across the country and I am pleased to see artists, crews, event producers and promoters are back to doing what they do best.