Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 8 September 2022
502. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she plans to weight the participants selected for the basic income for the arts pilot scheme proportional to the art forms of total applicants. [44033/22]
Amharc ar fhreagraOver 9,000 people applied for the basic income for the arts pilot scheme. Of those over 8,206 were eligible to be included in the selection process. As there are 2,000 places available on the scheme the sample was sufficiently large to ensure broad alignment with the eligible application population.
All applicants who evidenced their eligibility were included in the anonymised random selection, the resulting selected recipient and control group populations include representatives from every artform, age range, ethnic group and county, in percentages which are closely mapped to the application population across all demographics.
