Life Worth Living: The Report of the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce

The Taskforce identified a real risk that Ireland will emerge from COVID-19 to find its arts, culture and events sectors decimated, with some venues closed for good, many businesses folded, large numbers of skilled and talented performers and workers gone to other careers, and much of the experience and creativity of the sectors gone. It could take years to rebuild these essential sectors. And so the Taskforce’s recommendations are underpinned by the conviction that it is both urgent and important that Ireland’s cultural life - subsidised and commercial - is protected and sustained so that it can survive and adapt to these changed circumstances, recover its equilibrium and contribute to the renewal of our collective sense of wellbeing and purpose. Supporting Ireland’s creative and cultural industries is both an economic priority and a social imperative.