Results 35,981-36,000 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 392. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to pursue more applications for UNESCO world heritage status for more of Ireland's national landmarks (details supplied). [11682/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 393. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way she will work with her colleague the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure that parents can access second level education through Irish, especially in areas with proven demand for Gaelscoileanna. [11683/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 394. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide extra funding to Gaeltacht areas to encourage greater use of the language and better economic prospects for those living in Gaeltacht areas. [11684/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 395. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way she plans to ensure arts funding is used to ensure minority and new Irish voices are heard as part of cultural output. [11685/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 402. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will work with the Minister for Health to develop and roll out an arts and health strategy across acute and children’s hospitals and across the community health sector; and the other innovative approaches being considered to use the arts as a means to promote wellbeing across society. [11694/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 403. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action she is taking with her Government colleagues to systematically address social, geographic and economic barriers to full participation in the artistic and cultural life of the country, particularly for children and young persons. [11695/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 396. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to support the development of the creative industries sector; if she has reviewed the report from the previous Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on the hearings in relation to Examining the Potential for Job Creation, Innovation and Balanced Economic Development in the Creative Economy; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts in Education Charter (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 397. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has liaised with the Minister for Education and Skills on the development of contemporary art education at primary and secondary level in schools. [11688/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 398. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to develop a national cultural strategy up to 2025. [11689/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 399. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to develop musical education and instruments available to young persons and the general population through facilitating schools, youth groups and libraries in enhancing their music resources and the provision of access to musical training and instruments for the benefit of local communities. [11690/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 400. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has examined proposals to facilitate on a national basis the use of vacant retail premises by exhibiting artists, based on successful schemes such as (details supplied) which uses empty retail units to support local artists. [11691/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Promotion (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 401. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will examine a nationwide plan for the development of village design statements that would ensure all future planning and development takes full cognisance of the historic character and protect the character and heritage of villages. [11692/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts in Education Charter (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 404. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans in place to ensure the better integration of the arts into education and broadening the focus on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) into science, technology, engineering, arts and maths (STEAM); and if she will expand the ambition and resourcing of the Arts and Education Charter and continue to work with...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 405. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will begin preparation of the global arts forum for Ireland, similar to the structure of the global Irish economic forum, which would highlight indigenous talent and map a strong and healthy future for arts and culture at home and abroad. [11697/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Functions (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 406. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Arts, Heritage and Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs is the title of her Department and if she anticipates there will be any further changes to the name of her Department or her Department’s functions; the sections of staff which have been assigned or transferred between Departments as a consequence of changes to her...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Brexit Issues (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 407. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the role she will have in the Government’s post-Brexit strategy, in view of her responsibility for regional affairs and the potential negative impact of Brexit on the Border area; if she has a specific unit in her Department to deal with the impact of Brexit on the Border region; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 410. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will appoint an expert panel of artists and cultural managers to advise her as proposed by the National Campaign for the Arts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11703/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 411. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on proposals that would mandate all local authorities to publish individual arts plans and cultural strategies and for local authority arts spending to be mandatory and ringfenced on an annual basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11704/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development Plan (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 412. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to deliver on action point 250 of the Action Plan for Rural Development to work with island communities to assess and implement improvements to island piers and harbours as necessary [11706/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Post Office Network (7 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 413. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way she proposes to oversee and monitor the implementation of actions to support the post office network, arising out of the report of the Post Office Renewal Board and the Post Office Hub Working Group, as outlined in point 20 of the Action Plan for Rural Development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11709/17]