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44. Mr. M. McDowell   asked the Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht the statistics, if any, available in respect of the number of people working full-time and part-time in the arts in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9047/96]
Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht (Mr. M. Higgins): The report entitled “The Employment and Economic Significance of the Cultural Industries in Ireland” commissioned by Temple Bar Properties and prepared by Coopers and Lybrand Corporate Finance, assisted by a consortium of State agencies including my own Department, and published in October 1994, was the first analysis on a national scale carried out to establish the economic significance — and especially the employment content — of the cultural industries in Ireland. The research of this report was carried out over the 12 month period October 1993 to October 1994 and the [1872] findings showed that the cultural industries in Ireland give employment to some 33,800 people. Like many other sectors, cultural industries provide a mixture of permanent and temporary employment on both a full-time and part-time basis and the figure of 33,800 which was identified by the Coopers and Lybrand and research in October 1994 represented 21,500 full-time equivalent posts or 1.9 per cent of the employed workforce at that time.
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