{"id":341547,"date":"2026-03-12T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T01:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/341547\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T01:46:11","slug":"wexford-artists-welcome-permanent-basic-income-for-arts-scheme-while-critics-might-have-called-it-the-artists-dole-art-is-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/341547\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford artists welcome permanent Basic Income for Arts Scheme \u2013 \u2018While critics might have called it the artist\u2019s dole, art is everywhere\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joy Redmond met with Wicklow Wexford TD Malcolm Byrne to discuss the BIA scheme.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/154f4d60-90cf-4c27-bebc-e7f1897ce34d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Joy Redmond met with Wicklow Wexford TD Malcolm Byrne to discuss the BIA scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Wexford artists have shared their delight following the announcement of the new, permanent Basic Income for Arts Scheme (BIA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Practicing artists will be able to apply for the scheme, where 2,000 eligible artists will be selected to receive a payment of \u20ac325 per week. The payment will be for three years and will also feature a tapering-off period of three months at the end of the cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joy Redmond met with Wicklow Wexford TD Malcolm Byrne to discuss the BIA scheme. Wexford artists have shared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[11711,307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-341547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-alan-white","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}