Vol. 449 No. 7
114 Mr. M. McDowell asked the Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht in view of remarks made by his Department on the failure of the architects' profession to endow the work of the Arts Council, if he will give details of all endowments of the Arts Council made over the last three years, categorising the endowments by reference to the individual arts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4467/95]
The most recent endowments of the work of the Arts Council are the Michael Byrne Trust (£8,800 in 1994 for the visual arts) and the Doris Keogh Award (£7,000 in 1992 for classical music). In previous years endowments, both modest and generous, were made by film, musical, literary and visual interests. The most notable was £51,370 by the Popular Music Association.
No remarks were made by my Department about the failure of the architects' profession to make such endowments; an invitation to the RIAI to follow the example of those such as the Popular Music Association was issued in the context of funding for the Arts Council in the next three years.
