Arts Funding
Dail Éireann — 2025-10-02
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

My question goes back to the previous grouping in relation to the basic income for the arts, BIA, scheme. What the Minister said earlier was unambiguously positive in terms of the evidence of the cost benefit analysis of the scheme. Will the scheme be made permanent? Will it be expanded to four or five times its current size so that all eligible applicants can benefit from it?

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Sitting date: 2025-10-02