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Other Questions: Artists' Remuneration (8 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 47. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the provisions she will put in place to protect the rights of artists and to provide them with adequate remuneration for the use of their copyrighted works. [43464/15]

Other Questions: Artists' Remuneration (8 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: I ask the Minister what provision she plans to put in place to protect the rights of artists and provide them with adequate remuneration for the use of their copyrighted works.

Other Questions: Artists' Remuneration (8 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: I note the Minister's comments that some of this might be addressed in the 2025 cultural policy, and I welcome that. The basic principle of copyright is that the creator shares in the economic return from their work and receives equitable remuneration for its use. Remuneration is considered to be equitable if it is proportional to the income earned by the work. Where this produces large...

Other Questions: Artists' Remuneration (8 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: The public lending right which provides writers with a small payment when their books are loaned in a public library was introduced by statutory instrument. Private copying levies, rental and lending rights and so forth are standard sources of income for creators and performers in most EU member states. Ireland is unique in adopting an approach of introducing such support schemes only, it...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (8 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 78. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the implementation of Culture 2025. [43466/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cards: Health Service Executive (9 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the delegates for their presentations. I attended a briefing they gave in the audiovisual room recently at which many issues were covered. I will not go over many of the issues that were raised today. I welcome the positive aspects of the presentations. I wish to refer to a couple of small points on medical card renewals. There seems to be a problem affecting people on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cards: Health Service Executive (9 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: Ms Hoey might have picked me up slightly wrongly. I was speaking about the decision-maker at the end of the dedicated line. That is where the problem is. We have a dedicated line, but we do not get to speak to a decision-maker. That is the problem. I have highlighted that before on numerous occasions as have other members.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: The photographs in many of today's papers are very stark. They show entire communities under water and vast swathes of the country are now flooded. Many of us here today come from communities that have been devastated by the recent bad weather, including my own county of Cork. Homes and businesses have been destroyed. People's livelihoods are literally being washed away, and this is not...

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: The Government has cut the OPW's flood risk management programme in 2016 by €15.6 million, or 25%.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: The €5 million the Government has committed to providing for flood relief will do nothing for home owners as it is allocated to help businesses. The €10 million allocation is means tested and is obviously very restrictive. That is the reason it has not been drawn down.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: It has never been fully drawn down. We know this situation will only get worse. The weather forecast is not good. The increased prevalence of flooding in Ireland in recent years has been linked to climate change. There has been an increase in the annual rainfall in northern and western areas, while there have been decreases or small increases in the south and east. The Taoiseach has said...

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: We have emissions targets to reach.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: Not agreed.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: A number of important Bills covering planning, crime, property, the courts and prisons are being guillotined between now and Tuesday in order to railroad them through the Houses before Christmas. Today, which is UN Human Rights Day, only two and a half hours are being set aside for Second Stage of the International Protection Bill. Tomorrow, approximately two to three hours has been allowed...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: I object again to the use of the guillotine for the same reasons I outlined earlier.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: I oppose the proposal on the basis that when legislation on which the House can divide comes before us either a Friday or Monday, the business should include Leaders' Questions, Topical Issues and Oral Questions, as is the case on normal sitting days.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: Yes, I will be here.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: I object to the guillotine for the reasons I have outlined previously. On a point of order or information, we had previously looked for Tuesday morning sittings but they were opposed because of Cabinet meetings. I object to that.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (10 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 133. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a person who reports an issue and provides a lengthy written statement to An Garda Síochána is entitled to an update on the stage that the investigation is at, if the Director of Public Prosecutions has made any comment on the matter, and if a definite line of inquiry is being followed; and if she will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (10 Dec 2015)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the Minister and his officials for their presentations.