Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2024-06-27
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

I would support anything we can do to support Irish music festivals and to try to create opportunities for Irish musicians and acts. I will speak to the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, about convening such a working roundtable. To be fair to the Minister, she has taken a range of initiatives to support native artists more generally, particularly with the basic income scheme she introduced. More broadly, in order to understand the issues that have given rise to the cancellation of festivals, the Government has no difficulty whatsoever in engaging and ensuring that we can provide necessary baseline supports to enable such a rich vein in our musical life to continue and to be sustainable.

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Sitting date: 2024-06-27