{"id":1597,"date":"2021-06-02T09:42:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T08:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/basic-income-guarantee-pilot-scheme-for-artists-welcome-but-overdue\/"},"modified":"2021-06-02T09:42:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T08:42:53","slug":"basic-income-guarantee-pilot-scheme-for-artists-welcome-but-overdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/basic-income-guarantee-pilot-scheme-for-artists-welcome-but-overdue\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Income Guarantee Pilot Scheme for Artists Welcome &#8211; but Overdue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Many of those working in the Arts are reliant on the PUP, which the government plans to cut from September<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Plans to introduce a basic income guarantee pilot scheme for artists are welcome \u2013 if overdue, according to Social Democrats TD Holly Cairns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister for Tourism, Culture and Arts, Catherine Martin, has committed to \u201cprioritise\u201d a basic income guarantee pilot scheme for artists. While this is welcome, it can hardly be described as a priority for the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis pilot scheme was first proposed, by the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce,\u00a0last November \u2013 nearly seven months ago. There has been no progress since then and we have no idea when it is likely to be introduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, many of those working in the Arts are reliant on the PUP, which the government plans to cut from September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many artists are the government going to include in its basic income pilot \u2013 and is it going to be more than those facing an imminent cut to their existing supports in September, if the economy has not fully reopened by then?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeparately, the Minister has also announced her intention to develop a new tourism policy. While this is welcome, it is remarkably vague. The tourism and hospitality sector is on its knees and the government has had a long time to plan and implement measures for the current tourism season \u2013 which is already underway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Minister feels the need to develop a new tourism policy, the inference is that she does not believe the existing one is fit for purpose. Announcing, with great fan-fare, plans to develop a future strategy is not much use to businesses that need help today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are measures in government\u2019s economic plan that are welcome, including the extension of the EWSS and the maintenance of the reduced 9pc VAT rate to 1 September 2022, which will provide certainty to businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the tourism and arts portions of the economic recovery plan are largely pledges to introduce plans at some unspecified later date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnnouncing intentions to introduce pilot schemes or new policy, at this late stage of the pandemic, when work on those measures could have already long commenced, is disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2 June, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of those working in the Arts are reliant on the PUP, which the government plans to cut from September Plans to introduce a basic income guarantee pilot scheme for artists are welcome \u2013 if overdue, according to Social Democrats TD Holly Cairns. \u201cMinister for Tourism, Culture and Arts, Catherine Martin, has committed to \u201cprioritise\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,400,7,399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-childcare","category-holly-cairns","category-press-release","category-tds"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Basic Income Guarantee Pilot Scheme for Artists Welcome - but Overdue - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/basic-income-guarantee-pilot-scheme-for-artists-welcome-but-overdue\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Basic Income Guarantee Pilot Scheme for Artists Welcome - but Overdue - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Many of those working in the Arts are reliant on the PUP, which the government plans to cut from September Plans to introduce a basic income guarantee pilot scheme for artists are welcome \u2013 if overdue, according to Social Democrats TD Holly Cairns. \u201cMinister for Tourism, Culture and Arts, Catherine Martin, has committed to \u201cprioritise\u201d [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/basic-income-guarantee-pilot-scheme-for-artists-welcome-but-overdue\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/socialdemocratsireland\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-02T08:42:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/4449-58-scaled-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"ZOO Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SocDems\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@SocDems\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"ZOO Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\\\/basic-income-guarantee-pilot-scheme-for-artists-welcome-but-overdue\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\\\/basic-income-guarantee-pilot-scheme-for-artists-welcome-but-overdue\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"ZOO Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4aa25e1b0ecfe5e51a2ceab9a9006960\"},\"headline\":\"Basic Income Guarantee Pilot Scheme for Artists Welcome &#8211; 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