People pursuing creative careers can avail of a range of grants

Creative grant pilot scheme delivers 2,000 artists a guaranteed €325 a week, among other initiatives to support creatives

Promoting creative careers: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and the Media, Catherine Martin, Arts Council director, Maureen Kennelly, and atistic director and CEO of the Fringe Festival, Ruth Mc Gowan at the National Stadium, Dublin, promoting the Basic Income for the Arts scheme providing creative people with a €325 per week grant. Picture: Maxwells

Dancers, actors and musicians often struggle to make ends meet, working poorly paid gigs to pay the bills while practising their art.

The resultant uncertainty, poverty and mental health wrecking stress, cannot be conducive to their being able to give their best to their art.