Budget 2021: 'Tens of millions' of euro in funds for the arts

The new scheme will provide 'tens of millions' of euro in support for the arts, a government support has indicated. A member of the public pass the Academy concert venue on Abbey Street Dublin. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The performing arts sector is to receive “tens of millions” of euro in funding in Tuesday’s budget in a new scheme aimed to prop up to ailing sector, which has been decimated by Covid-19.

The initiative, which will be run by the Department of Tourism and Arts, will offer funding for small community venues up to large commercial concert spaces in order to make the sector more viable as the country battles the pandemic into 2021.