Government spending this year likely to be €86bn versus original plan of €70bn according to Minister for Public Expenditure Michael McGrath. pic.twitter.com/dgaKZiGKRZ
— Will Goodbody (@willgoodbody) July 24, 2020
This afternoon.
Hush now.
Meanwhile…
Via The Arts Council:
The Arts Council has welcomed Minister Catherine Martin’s announcement of measures to stimulate employment and activity in the arts and culture sector, saying it would invest in a range of schemes to support artists and arts organisations across the country.
As part of the €31 million package…said it would invest the additional resources in enhanced bursaries, commissions, projects and other supports for individual artists and practitioners, and in the arts organisations through which much of the work is made.
Minister Martin’s measures also include ;
Funding through the Creative Ireland programme to fund artists in local communities through local authorities; a music support scheme that will support all genres;.
€5 million to support the audio visual sector in de-risking the costs of productions to be rolled out in conjunction with Screen Ireland;
€5 million to help de-risk the costs of creating new theatrical works and other performances; €6 million in capital for arts infrastructure funding to accelerate construction in cultural institutions;
€2 million for the BAI’s Sound and Vision Fund; €3 million for a dedicated TV Drama fund to be run by Screen Ireland…
PLUS:
Funding to collaborate with national broadcast media to pay artists to produce material for national broadcast…
Anyone?
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