Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 March 2022
302. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the steps she is taking to ensure that the supports offered under the live performance support scheme 4 are being distributed as quickly as possible to prevent the permanent closure of venues. [15068/22]
Amharc ar fhreagraAs part of the €50 million suite of supports for the Live performance sector in 2022, I recently announced details of a new €15 million Live Performance Restart Grant Scheme (LPRGS).
This scheme will provide a new grant for businesses engaged in staging live events in the arts and culture live performance sector. The scheme aims to help underpin the recovery of the live performance sector by providing business restart grants to successful applicants as a support to de-risk the planning of events across spring and summer of 2022.
Grants of up to €100,000 will be available to eligible businesses under the scheme.
This scheme opens for applications today and will remain open for four weeks via an online application portal on my Department’s website.
Further information in relation to this scheme can be accessed on my Department’s website here - www.gov.ie/en/publication/d1d0c-live-performance-restart-grant-scheme-lprgs-guidelines/.
