Live entertainment sector calls for further State support

Over 5,000 people working in Ireland's entertainment industry are in arrears with mortgage payments and bills due to a loss of income during the pandemic, it is claimed. Picture: File Picture/Pexels

Some 5% of Arts Council funding should go into a new hardship fund to help people working in the live entertainment industry.

That's one of many proposals included in a new pre-Budget submission to Government made by the Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (MEAI) today.