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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 1210. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be provided in Budget 2026 to deliver a community neurorehabilitation team for the midlands and north east in line with the Programme for Government commitment to complete the roll out of community neurorehabilitation teams across the country. [30307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 1162. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be provided in this year’s Budget to deliver a community neurorehabilitation team for the Midlands and North East in line with the Programme for Government commitment to complete the rollout of community neurorehabilitation teams across the country; and if she will make a statement on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I welcome the witnesses. I had an opportunity to engage with the Arts Council and the Department on this issue at the public accounts committee last week. The briefing document provided to us from the Arts Council today details extensively the timeline and the processes that led to the IT system write-off. It is clear in black and white that people in the Arts Council engaged with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: In his opening statement Mr. Ó Coigligh said that governance, oversight and resourcing, among other things, are all core responsibilities for the Department. Despite being made aware of concerns on multiple occasions, it seems this was all overlooked. Mr. Ó Coigligh has attested to that himself in his admission of failings of the Department at that stage. The IT companies that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: That is very welcome. Mr. Ó Coigligh's intervention and the measures he has taken are very proactive and overdue, obviously, particularly when we look at what happened in this instance. To be clear, there is reform under way in the Department but no single person or team has been specifically held accountable for these failures. In other words, blame has not been apportioned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I respect that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: There were failures. That is a valid point. The Department failed, yet it seems, as a result of everything that is going on - such as the report that is in front of us today and the engagement that took place at the Committee of Public Accounts last week - that the Arts Council is being made a scapegoat. In particular, Ms. Kennelly has been thrown under the bus by the Minister by not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Mr. Ó Coigligh was not Accounting Officer at the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: That is fair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Very quickly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Fantastic. I have a query regarding to something in the annual report regarding rent costs the Arts Council spends. Can the witnesses highlight where and why it is paying rent and who the landlords are?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Has the Arts Council engaged with the OPW on perhaps utilising some of its properties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: To no avail.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Is the rent comparable to what is paid by other non-semi-State applicants in the area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: My question is for Ms McGrath. The issue was touched on by a colleague earlier and was raised at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts last week. It relates to the conflict of interest with the National Concert Hall. Ms McGrath was emphatic that there is no conflict of interest. She mentioned a project earlier from which she exempted herself. It seems that the Arts Council funds...

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I will begin by reiterating that, for the common good, I want every Government housing and homelessness policy to work. For every person on a housing list, for every one of the hidden homeless, for every family in a homeless hub and for all of those in emergency accommodation, I want the Government's policies to work. However, I do not know what way it needs to be communicated to the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (17 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 677. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the findings and recommendations from the personalised budget pilot; her next steps to deliver an effective personalised budget model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31947/25]

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: There are many things I could speak about under this Private Members' business but I will stick to trains. Public transport will play a major role in the development of our regions. People must be able to work, live and commute from all over the country and that is why Sinn Féin is determined to deliver major rail projects that have stalled, fallen by the wayside, been left in a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I wish to raise the substandard and dangerous state of disrepair Drogheda ambulance station is currently in. I have over recent months raised this directly with the Minister and during a Topical Issue debate several weeks ago, I elevated major concerns around subsidence, mould, electrical faults and security and safety concerns among other things. I requested that the Minister engage with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I thank all of our witnesses. The majority of my questions have already been asked and answered but I have a follow-up point for Ms Kirby, who has used the word "critical" regarding 25% of the public money given to RTÉ being invested in the independent production sector. There has been a suggestion that reaching this figure be delayed. What are Ms Kirby's views on this and what impact...