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Tue, 2 May 2017
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Arts Funding
Joan Burton
709. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to commit to the long-term goal of increasing arts funding to the European average of 0.6% of GDP. [19718/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Arts Funding
Joan Burton
710. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to increase funding in the arts over the lifetime of the Government; and her views on whether funding for the Arts Council and the Irish Film Board should be doubled. [19719/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Arts Funding
Joan Burton
711. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to create an arts capital fund modelled after the sports capital fund to ensure better long-term funding for the arts. [19720/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Social Welfare Code
Joan Burton
712. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will liaise with the Minister for Social Protection to examine the supports for working artists in the social welfare system; and if she will relax activation rules for working artists to allow them to support themselves as they produce art and cultural pieces. [19721/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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World Heritage Sites
Joan Burton
713. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to pursue more applications for UNESCO world heritage status for national landmarks (details supplied). [19722/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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School Admissions
Joan Burton
714. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to co-operate with the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure that parents can access second level education through Irish, especially in areas with proven demand for Gaelscoileanna. [19723/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Gaeltacht Policy
Joan Burton
715. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will provide additional funding to Gaeltacht areas to encourage greater use of the Irish language and better economic prospects for those living in those areas. [19724/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Arts Funding
Joan Burton
716. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to ensure arts funding is used to ensure minority and new voices are heard as part of the cultural output. [19725/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Creative Ireland Programme
Joan Burton
717. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to support the development of the creative industries sector; if she has reviewed the report from the previous Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on the hearings in respect of examining the potential for job creation, innovation and balanced economic development in the creative economy; and if she will implement the recommendations of the report in tandem with the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. [19726/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Arts in Education Charter
Joan Burton
718. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she has liaised with the Minister for Education and Skills on the development of contemporary art education at primary and secondary level in schools. [19728/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Arts Funding
Joan Burton
719. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to develop musical education and instruments available to young persons and the general population through facilitating schools, youth groups and libraries in enhancing their music resources and the provision of access to musical training and instruments. [19729/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Arts Promotion
Joan Burton
720. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will examine proposals to facilitate use of vacant retail premises by exhibiting artists based on successful schemes such as one (details supplied) in County Galway. [19730/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Heritage Promotion
Joan Burton
721. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will examine a nationwide plan for the development of village design statements that would ensure all future planning and development takes full cognisance of historic character and protects the character and heritage of villages. [19731/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Arts Funding
Joan Burton
722. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to co-operate with the Minister for Health to develop an arts and health strategy across acute and children’s hospitals and across the community health sector; and the innovative approaches which are being considered to use the arts as a means to promote well-being across society. [19733/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Arts Funding
Joan Burton
723. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the steps she is taking with her Government colleagues to systematically address social, geographic and economic barriers to full participation in the artistic and cultural life of the country, particularly for children and young persons. [19734/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Arts in Education Charter
Joan Burton
724. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to ensure the better integration of the arts into education and broadening the focus on science, technology, engineering and maths into science, technology, engineering, arts and maths; her further plans to expand the ambition and resourcing of the arts in education charter; and her further plans to work with the Department of Education and Skills to enhance the position of arts subjects within the curriculum at primary and secondary level. [19735/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Cultural Policy
Joan Burton
725. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to begin preparation of a global arts forum similar to the structure of the Global Economic Forum. [19736/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Brexit Issues
Joan Burton
726. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the role she will have in the Government’s post-Brexit strategy in view of her responsibility for regional affairs and the potential negative impact of Brexit on the Border area; if there is a specific unit in her Department to deal with the impact of Brexit on the Border region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19737/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Departmental Budgets
Joan Burton
727. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to ensure that the €50 million spent in 2016 on commemoration will be retained in the arts budget for 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19738/17]
Tue, 2 May 2017
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Arts Promotion
Joan Burton
728. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will appoint an expert panel of artists and cultural managers to advise her as proposed by an organisation (details supplied) in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19739/17]