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Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I think he is right. One of the things that was exposed was that the regulatory environment was certainly designed at a time when climate change was not going to be the enemy of wires and poles that it is, together with trees that have ash dieback and a whole clatter of other things. I am not satisfied that there was a sufficient response when parts of west Cork...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The number of people who were without a service that was being reported to me was not accurate at particular times at the height of the storm.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: It was way higher - multiples of the number. It is not good enough. Then there is the billing system. People are being left without a service and the companies have no problem in dropping an invoice into people's inboxes.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: We have to look at this in the round. Storm Éowyn has probably provided me with an opportunity to bring forward modernisation that should be done anyway-----

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: -----and I will engage with the committee on that. On what the Cathaoirleach said about venues, we will try to do the grassroots scheme, which was a small pilot scheme of €0.5 million that was massively oversubscribed, next year with a bigger pot of money if we can. As to more venues, the Cathaoirleach is quite right. Most of the national cultural institutions are in Dublin with the...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes. It would involve the provision of the same type of system as the large-scale sport infrastructure funding, LSSIF, scheme. Local authorities would have to provide a site and some of the working capital. As well as that, they would have operate it. We will not be there checking the tickets at the door. If cultural spaces are going to be provided around the country, they have to...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: To clarify on the Deputy’s previous question, that is just for TG4.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The basic income for the arts scheme is a pilot. It was set up to see what the take-up would be like and how it would address the precarious nature of artists' income. There is no doubt that it has been massively successful. It has probably been a victim of its success because there might have been some people in the Department of public expenditure and reform who thought it was a pilot...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: They are not because I have no extension to consider them for. I have not considered anyone or anything. Once I have the money, I will consider everything.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The most important thing is that we have a director running the public process. Tom Enright is a former Wexford county manager and would have appeared before Oireachtas committees. He was no stranger to the Custom House when the Cathaoirleach was there.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: He is a very competent public servant and a former director of services in Limerick County Council. A lot of work has to be done but an awful lot of the public work is already under way. The Adare bypass is progressing. I saw a chunk of it in Croagh where the roundabout is open. The railway is built and testing of that will start over the summer. Those are two massive legacy projects....

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: As I said the last time I was here, that work is under way. I extended it so that I would have four quarters of quantitative and qualitative results. It is research, primarily. We will publish it. Without seeing the final results, I have no doubt that it will more than wash its own face in terms of output and I have no problem standing over it. Once I have a complete set of data, I will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Projects (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: In support of Action 19 in the Report of the Night-Time Economy Taskforce and as part of the Department's key role in driving the Night-Time Economy in Ireland, we are funding 9 NTE Advisors in Dublin City, Cork City, Limerick City, Galway City, Kilkenny, Sligo, Longford, Buncrana and Drogheda. The Night-Time Economy pilots are a significant project within the Night-Time Economy policy area...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: My Department and its Offices are tenants in office accommodation provided to it through the Office of Public Works (OPW) who manage the State's property portfolio on behalf of Government Departments. I am informed that my Department therefore does not own any of the CCTV cameras installed on the buildings it currently occupies. The management and maintenance of the CCTV cameras is a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Policies (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: In the first six months of the year, there have been major funding initiatives vital to the growth and evolution of sectors within my Department’s responsibility. My Department continues to support and promote all aspects of our culture and our sport, while developing a robust and trustworthy media sector and also ensuring that the vital communications networks that connect us are...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commemorative Events (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Daniel O'Connell was born near Cahersiveen, County Kerry on the 06 August 1775. To mark the 250th anniversary of his birth a full commemorative programme of events has been developed by my department in collaboration with the Department of the Taoiseach, the OPW, Kerry County Council and other stakeholders including the local community. This programme will create opportunities for renewed...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The National Broadband Plan (NBP) is the government's initiative to deliver high speed broadband services to all premises in Ireland. The premises in question is located in the AMBER area on the broadband map which is available on . The amber area is to be served by the network deployed under the NBP State led intervention. The latest information on when high-speed broadband will become...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Television Licence Fee (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The quantity of TV licence renewals and first time purchases for Q1 and Q2 of 2023, 2024 and 2025 are as follows: Year Q1 First Time Q1 Renewal Q2 First Time Q2 Renewal 2023 31,345 198,145 27,040 188,774 2024 21,118 174,861 19,525 163,153 ...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Arts Council (15 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Under the Arts Act 2003, the Arts Council has primary responsibility for the development of the arts in Ireland and Budget 2025 has provided record funding of €140 million for the Arts Council. The Arts Council is committed to increasing public engagement in the arts in Ireland and it provides financial support to a number of initiatives aimed at increasing public access, participation...