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Pilot income scheme will 'take artists off the poverty line'

Artists will be paid €325 per week under a pilot basic income scheme to be brought before ministers today. Long-awaited plans for the scheme will see artists guaranteed €1,300 a month at a cost of around €35m a year to the State...

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12.39 5 Apr 2022


Pilot income scheme will 'take artists off the poverty line'


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Artists will be paid €325 per week under a pilot basic income scheme to be brought before ministers today.

Long-awaited plans for the scheme will see artists guaranteed €1,300 a month at a cost of around €35m a year to the State.

Singer Mary Coughlan, who has been advocating for this for a long time joined Andrea on Lunchtime Live.

She was joined alongside Matt McGranaghan, from the MEAO and violin player and Angela Dorgan, Chair of National Campaign for the Arts...

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