Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 8 September 2022
501. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the breakdown of the number of applicants for the basic income for the arts pilot scheme by application stream. [44032/22]
Amharc ar fhreagraThere were three categories under which applicants for the Basic Income for the Arts Pilot scheme could apply as follows:
1. Practising artists;
2. Creative Arts Workers (defined as someone who has a creative practice or whose creative work makes a key contribution to the interpretation or exhibition of the arts), or;
3. Recently Trained i.e. graduated with a relevant qualification in the past 5 years.
I am advised that 81.3% of applicants applied as practising artists, 11.14% applied as Creative Arts Workers and 7.56% as Recently Trained Applicants.
