Results 201-220 of 319 for speaker:Joanna Byrne
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: Okay. As a result of the issues arising, I understand the contract with one of the appointed suppliers was terminated. This led to a settlement agreement that is subject to a confidentiality clause, which I respect. Are such clauses still in use today? I do not understand the rationale for paying a supplier for not doing the job it was hired to do. Is RTÉ defending that these clauses...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: On the writedown, it is fair to say that anybody who worked in the private sector, if they had overseen such a significant loss of money - I call it significant although the director general called it unfortunate - would receive sanctions of some sort. Has anybody in RTÉ received any sanctions? What corrective and preventative actions have been put in place to ensure that no further...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: They did not receive sanctions. They left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: On a different note, do the witnesses feel that RTÉ can continue to operate within its current traditional revenue stream considering the fluctuation of people paying the licence fee or does RTÉ need to look at a change to Exchequer funding, as proposed by this committee in the previous Dáil term and recommended by the Future of Media Commission?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: I am asking what the witnesses feel.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (27 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: 469. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update in respect of a family reunification application (details supplied). [27083/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (27 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: 702. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the bed capacity on the ground floor east of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, prior to renovation works carried out in 2022; the current capacity of the ground floor east; the number of beds the renovation works on ground floor east planned to deliver; the cost of this project; the value-for-money assessments or reports that may have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: Coming back to the Department, it is clearly aware of its obligations to present audited financial statements within sufficient timelines. I know this query has been put to the Secretary General already. I put it to him. While citing a failure of governance in the Arts Council, he acknowledged a failure of oversight on the part of the Department. Having listened to the responses to all...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: Would Mr. Ó Coigligh make that decision again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: If Mr. Ó Coigligh did, does he think that is best practice?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: Mr. Ó Coigligh is not offering reassurances.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: In conclusion, I wish Ms Kennelly well in the future. I hope this does not damage her reputation and her long-standing career into the future.
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (29 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: 373. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail the actual draw down of funds by successful applicants, for each year from 2019 to May 2024, and to date in 2025, under the large scale sports infrastructure funding programme, and list the projects and amounts, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28408/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (29 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: 374. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht regarding the €173 million allocated to successful applicants in the large scale sports infrastructure funding in 2024, the amount that is forecast and budgeted to be drawn down, for each year from 2025 to 2029; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28409/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (29 May 2025)
Joanna Byrne: 375. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is a deadline or timeline for the drawdown of funds awarded in the 2024 large scale sports infrastructure round of funding; if there are time-specific key performance indicators that must be met; if there is a cutoff date by which the funds must be drawn down and used; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (11 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: I read the press release issued on Monday by the Minister, Deputy McEntee, which detailed the 28 schools that will undergo major energy and decarbonisation retrofit works this summer under the pathfinder programme. It is welcome news for those schools and I have no doubt they are delighted to be selected. I understand the pilot inventory covered schools in counties Kildare, Meath, Offaly,...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (11 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. The school has applied for emergency works funding. It is also in the process of applying for the climate action summer works scheme this year. However, getting multiple grants at various times and doing the required works piecemeal is time consuming for primary school teachers who are already overloaded. It is almost unfair to ask them to...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (10 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: 579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to engage the SEAI Pathfinder Programme with a school in Drogheda (details supplied) to achieve their retrofit and energy goals, and replace inadequate heating and insulation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29769/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (10 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: 715. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans his Department have to effectively promote and successfully implement copper switch off; whether his Department has, or is working on, an implementation plan for same; when this roadmap plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30040/25]