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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (17 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason it is not possible for an initial assessment of paper based passport applications to be done upon receipt of such applications so that applicants can be notified of missing or incorrect documentation in a timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44865/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (17 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: 93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason that when a person submits a paper-based passport application and is notified of missing documentation, they are returned to the back of queue for processing when they submit the correct documentation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44866/23]

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank Mr. Brendan Quinn who has done Trojan work in assembling this petition of 26,000 signatures, 9,000 of which emanate from my county of Galway, and Mr. John Mulligan who is another stalwart campaigner for common sense and for the reinstatement of a vital piece of public infrastructure connecting Athenry to Sligo. It has lain idle for 40 years, bringing no benefit whatsoever to the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I have additional information to bring to the conversation. So far, the Department of Transport has invested €375,000 in a feasibility, planning and design study. Consultants have been recruited to carry out the feasibility, planning and design study on the section of the greenway from Athenry to Milltown so there is already significant investment on the part of the Department of...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Exactly.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Valuation Office (24 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: 335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify if, on the basis that the Valuation Act 2015 sets out two conditions for the exemption to apply to charities, namely, that the organisation must be a charitable organisation and the property on which exemption is being claimed must be occupied for charitable purposes and not for private profit; and if an...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister of State for being here today and for his unstinting commitment to making our roads safer. As he pointed out in his opening statement, we are in a crisis. That is the only way of describing it. In three out of the past four years, we have gone backwards. There have been 155 deaths this year and recent RSA statistics tell us that, in the past seven years, 1,600...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I will finish on this and I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for her support. I am working with a community in a small village in south Galway called Kilcolgan. This is essentially a village divided by a national secondary route. TII, incidentally, should also reflect on its role in road safety. I asked our local roads engineer to consider the installation of a pedestrian crossing in a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (14 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: 99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he intends to open a new round of the Safe Routes to Schools Programme, bearing in mind the large number of schools that have yet to be supported through the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49452/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has any plans to introduce a transfer/relocation scheme for post primary teachers, bearing in mind the need to make teaching an attractive career option; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50054/23]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank all of the witnesses for coming before the committee and for the remarkable work they do in nurturing and enriching communities throughout the country in their artistic endeavours. It is mind-boggling what they achieve with very limited resources. I thank them for that. This is an area about which I am very passionate. My wife and I ran an 80-seat theatre for five years until...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Correct.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: A home.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Is going up?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Will Mr. McIntyre explain why that is happening?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I will make a final point. What you are setting out to do is to create a cultural ecosystem at community level. If the talent is to emerge, which talent the Arts Council may support, it will emerge through that ecosystem. If it is not there, you are losing out on so much opportunity. I remember as a teenager seeing Colm Wilkinson singing in Jesus Christ Superstarin Loughrea with the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: That is good to hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: This week we have seen something completely unprecedented in Irish politics whereby Reporters Without Borders and our own National Union of Journalists, NUJ, felt obliged to write to the leader of a political party, Sinn Féin, expressing their alarm about a series of legal actions taken by Sinn Féin members against journalists. The letter states: "... the number of legal actions...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (22 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the members of the MEAI, including Mr. Butler, for joining us today. The MEAI has become an extraordinarily effective and powerful voice for a sector, the Irish music industry, that was pretty much voiceless. It emerged from the ashes of the pandemic and was crucial in seeking support from the Government for the sector throughout the pandemic. Thankfully, many artists emerged...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (22 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Maybe you have already answered the question, sorry.