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Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: This is good legislation and the Minister should be commended for it.

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: We will be supporting it 100%. I also compliment CAB, its officers and the people who work there. They do very sensitive and dangerous work and their anonymity is important going forward because these criminals and their organisations have long views. It is incredibly important that we protect the people who work for CAB. I want to acknowledge something that shows how politics works at...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I know the Taoiseach is going be very sad next week when my great county of Tipperary defeats, in fairness, his great county of Cork in the all-Ireland. I just want to condition him for that. I hope that sadness does not permeate elsewhere, particularly as the Government is doing the NDP and the summer economic statement. There has been a bit of conditioning coming from the Tánaiste...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: You already have your car signs printed.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Humble. That is displayed everywhere.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: What will be the structural reductions?

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

Alan Kelly: We have received apologies from Deputies Micheál Carrigy and Brian Brennan. I believe some other members are delayed or may not be able to attend. This meeting has been convened to consider the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025: Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport, which were referred to the committee by Dáil Éireann. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Patrick...

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

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister. I now invite the Minister of State to make his opening statement.

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

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State.

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

Alan Kelly: To clarify, we do not have full agreement from the FAI yet. It is in process, hopefully.

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

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister. We will have one small round of questions afterwards. I have a few questions and some observations. I thank the Minister for his frankness. The issue regarding TG4 is something that has been expressed by nearly every member of this committee. I refer to the contribution TG4 makes not just in sport, but also in documentaries, which is what I like. It is for a...

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

Alan Kelly: It would be on both of those aims, if funding comes through in the budget obviously.

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

Alan Kelly: I agree with the Minister.

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

Alan Kelly: There is a young chap - well, not young as he is nearly 40 now - in GMCBeats down in Cork who is teaching rap music to kids for the last 15 to 20 years.

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

Alan Kelly: I doubt he has ever got any State support. He may have got-----

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

Alan Kelly: -----some small supports. Exactly.