Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Question:213. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the progress that has been made on the digital creative industries roadmap. [32164/22]
View answerTuesday, 21 June 2022
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The Creative Ireland Programme in my Department consulted during 2019 with other Government Departments, agencies, industry bodies, practitioners and academics in concluding a focus on design-based, digital creative and content creation sub-sectors within a Roadmap for the Creative Industries. Substantial progress was made in drafting the Roadmap in the early part of 2020, but its finalisation and implementation was impacted by the Covid pandemic. The draft roadmap drafted is now being re-positioned in the context of the current policy landscape, which requires re-validation of the pre-Covid business rationale against more recent market analysis. The relevance of the range of supports Government introduced to support and sustain the private sector and SMEs also need to be carefully explored.
The broader policy landscape relevant to the draft Roadmap has also seen significant policy developments since 2020. This includes, amongst other things:
- National SME and Entrepreneurship Growth Plan;
- Industry 4.0 Strategy;
- National Artificial Intelligence Strategy;
- Smart Specialisation;
- Implementation of the Audio-visual Action Plan;
- Tax relief for the digital gaming sector in the Finance Act 2021;
- Impact 2030: Ireland’s Research and Innovation Strategy;
- Action Plan for Apprenticeships 2021-2025;
- Technology Skills 2022.
Officials from a number of Departments continue to liaise in examining these issues further in order to understand how best to proceed and with a view to finalising the Creative Industries pillar of the new Creative Ireland Programme 2023-2027.