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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Dance as a Performance Art: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: I understand Dance Ireland has sent in a submission. I hope we can invite it in another time. We do not want to exclude anybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Dance as a Performance Art: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: I attended the University of Limerick and did a postgraduate course on dance education under Teresa Leahy on dance education so I am curious to know from the three organisations - CoicCéim, the Dance Theatre of Ireland and Firkin Crane - what engagement they have had so far with Creative Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Dance as a Performance Art: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: To narrow that down, the Dance Theatre of Ireland has done two projects through Creative Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Dance as a Performance Art: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: Can I stop Ms Webster there because I want to get a sense of where we are with Creative Ireland? Has Firkin Crane any engagement with Creative Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Dance as a Performance Art: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: What about CoisCéim?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Dance as a Performance Art: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: Has Firkin Crane or CoisCéim had any engagement with Creative Schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Dance as a Performance Art: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: There is a higher implementation group, and its role and remit is where the Department of Cultural, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Department of Education and Skills come together to see how we can best implement arts policy, which would include the visual, performing and literary arts. Are any of the organisations involved with that higher implementation group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Dance as a Performance Art: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: The higher implementation group.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Dance as a Performance Art: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: To my knowledge, Kildare County Council is a good example of where the local authority rolls out regular education. It does the Laban Guild Dance, which is the dance format, style or genre it works with. There is a greater opportunity through our schools to roll out dance. Dance should be like music or art. One has a music class. There should be a dance teacher in every school,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Dance as a Performance Art: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: I understand it is part of physical education, PE, which is madness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Dance as a Performance Art: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: When I went to UL, the vast majority were PE teachers. I came from a ballet background but there were very few dancers participating because of the PE teachers. It was a box-ticking exercise because those teachers had to deliver modules in dance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Dance as a Performance Art: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: What way does funding work now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Dance as a Performance Art: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: I appreciate the council tries to cover all art forms but I would like to know the number for dance artists?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (15 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: 100. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the beef crisis; his plans to assist farmers on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41983/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (15 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an appeal by Bus Éireann (details supplied); if the response from the transport provider will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41762/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff Data (15 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the 1,000 special needs assistant positions announced in budget 2020 are additional to the 900 announced in 2019; the number of the 900 positions that have been filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42050/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (15 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of day services for (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41690/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an urgent appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41807/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (15 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: 386. To ask the Minister for Health if the maintenance at a centre (details supplied) will be referred to the HSE; the status of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41867/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (15 Oct 2019)

Niamh Smyth: 438. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 438 of 8 October 2019 (details supplied) to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, if same will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42115/19]