1549. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the value of arts, heritage and cultural funding allocated to each local authority area in each of the past ten years, by scheme, in tabular form. [59253/26]

My Department publishes all arts capital payments on its website in tabular form for each county on an annual basis once they have been prepared for publication. Accordingly, a full list of annual capital payments from the A7 Subhead - Cultural Infrastructure & Development - to local authorities can be found at gov.ie - Creative Arts: Grants and Funding - Previous Schemes.

In addition, a full list of current payments from the A6 Subhead - Regional Museums, Galleries, Cultural Centres & Projects - including payments to local authorities is available at the following link on gov.ie

Cultural Projects Funding

My Department also provides funding to local authorities through a range of other cultural programmes, including Creative Ireland, the Night Time Economy and Commemorations Units. This year, Culture Ireland has allocated over €1m to deliver an enhanced programme of cultural activity in every local authority in the country during Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Officials in my Department will provide a direct reply to the Deputy with further details of these allocations. I would ask the Deputy to inform my office if a reply is not received within 10 days.

With respect to heritage funding, this is a matter for Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.