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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: The issues of delays in getting decisions from An Bord Pleanála has now become farcical. We need to ensure that a reform is in place that at least gives applicants the knowledge of when they are going to get a definitive decision, at a time when there is a housing crisis in this country. There are cases backlogged, and people who want to build homes cannot get a decision. In respect...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media: Statements (11 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for his words. I welcome the Minister of State with responsibility for sport and physical education. It is great to have the Minister of State in the Chamber, and it is even better because he comes from County Meath. He mentioned sports capital grants. Their significance is recognised by all of us as not just something positive for the sports clubs that...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the witnesses it is a fantastic array of witnesses from the arts fraternity in Ireland. I will follow on from the theme of space availability Senator Warfield touched on and that was raised by Ms Nugent and others, because it goes to the heart of what we are discussing. I started in politics 24 years ago as a councillor and when I was on the council in Navan, one of the first...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: I thank Ms Banotti for mentioning that.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: On that point, when I was a councillor I was pleased to work with Jackie Maguire, who Ms Banotti mentioned, and the late Shane Donnelly, who was town clerk in Navan. We created a public space artistic scheme for Navan where an artist was commissioned to place a piece of work on every single street. We then created a walking trail with a headset so people could hear the story behind each...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: Down the midlands.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: I want to ask something about the ever-evolving expansion of Culture Night. There was mention of filling eight Croke Parks. Maybe I am a bit of a caveman here, but my first-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: My first engagement with Culture Night was going to Croke Park for the night-time tour of the stadium. That was maybe 15 years ago or whenever it started first. What kind of areas are our guests looking at with a view to broadening out and expanding Culture Night?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: I have one very quick question to ask of Ms Greene. I would be interested in hearing about her experiences of the whole issue of space and how she utilises that when working with the communities she is working with to enhance the number of spaces for artists in different communities across the North.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: Ms Nugent raised the point of planning regulations and trying to tie that in. Given that housing in the North is tied to that department, is that an area that Ms Greene has been looking at?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: Along with Senators Carrigy, Malcolm Byrne and Warfield, I met the directors and toured the Abbey Theatre before Christmas. Being patrons and enjoying a show front-of-house is one thing but seeing the conditions in which the staff of the theatre work back-of-house was eye opening. There are toilets in this building bigger than some of the cramped confines they have to work in. They still...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: With the Department and the Abbey Theatre working collaboratively, I hope it goes swiftly because it is much needed. It is great to see such ambition for the theatre on the agenda.

Seanad: Tourism: Statements (18 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the Minister to the House to discuss this issue. I also welcome her officials. The Minister is a regular attendee in this Chamber. Before I address the matters the Minister has spoken about, I want to raise an issue affecting the crossover between tourism and sport, given that the 70th hosting of the Rás Tailteann began in the town of Navan yesterday. This is a significant...

Seanad: Tourism: Statements (18 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: I cannot believe the Senator will miss the Longford match.

Seanad: Tourism: Statements (18 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Minister for engaging with the House here today. That concludes the statements on tourism. When is it proposed to sit again?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Cathaoirleach and I welcome all our guests. It has been an interesting debate. I thank our guests most sincerely for their work. Having been a councillor for 17 years, I would be unashamedly pro-local government and the work that local authorities do. As Mr. Rainey has said, that the local authorities make up the second biggest source of funding for the arts should not be...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: Absolutely. Mr.Yeates made a really interesting point in respect of embedding beyond what we perceive normally as the arts. Does he believe that should happen on a legislative basis? There were people from the arts community in here a couple of weeks ago who were calling for that. Mr. Yeates referred to the HSE. Does he have other examples where he sees that happening and where it could...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: It is a credit to all. On that whole aspect of culture, Ms Carew used the term that there needs to be a step change. Does she mean a step change in attitude at national level or what does she mean?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: I thank everybody for their work.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: To go back to Mr. Rainey, and having listened to what Mr. Yates said, from my time going through many development plans as a councillor and looking at new areas being developed, and from the sustainable point of view, we need that across the board, not just with arts, but in terms of sporting facilities, educational facilities and so on. I have seen it so many times with planners. Planners...