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Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (16 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, for selecting this matter and I thank the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, for attending. Everybody acknowledges that the DEIS programme to combat disadvantage in schools at primary and post-primary level has been a significant success since its introduction. Under the DEIS programme additional resources have been made available to...

Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (16 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Was Deputy Ruairí Quinn not going to give it the chop altogether?

Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (16 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I commend the Minister on what she is proposing to do. Nobody could disagree with her proposals but, meanwhile back at the ranch, children are going through primary and post-primary schools that warrant DEIS classification but which do not have the resources required. She is effectively saying to the students she will not be able to do anything for them and that they will have to continue...

Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (16 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Minister should change it. It is not good enough.

Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (16 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: What is happening to children in the meantime?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Eligibility (16 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has sufficient contributions to qualify for an invalidity pension; the reason for the decision taken in respect of this person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23104/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (16 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 170. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23105/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Arts Promotion (17 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way his Department liaises with other relevant State agencies to use the arts to attract visitors from overseas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16825/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alfred Beit Foundation (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 1. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the sale of paintings by the Alfred Beit Foundation; the action her Department can take on any sale; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24010/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alfred Beit Foundation (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: In the past few weeks, since the media began to publicise the fact the Alfred Beit Foundation intended to sell quite a number of significant art works, including pieces by Rubens, there has been extensive public reaction and growing public concern about the fact that these art works, if sold, will pass out of the country and that the proceeds will be used to maintain Russborough House on an...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alfred Beit Foundation (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I am concerned about the Minister's response. First and foremost, we understand from media reports that the Department was aware as far back as 2013 of the difficulties at Russborough House, although Deputy Heather Humphreys was not Minister at the time, and that Government aid was sought. What we are looking at is a situation in which, to meet the ongoing demand for about €1 million...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alfred Beit Foundation (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I do not live that far away from Russborough House and I am well aware of what goes on there. I agree with the Minister that a great job has been done. However, the position is unsustainable, given that the cost of running Russborough House is €1 million per annum and the shortfall is of the order of €400,000. Rather than wringing our hands, An Taisce has come forward with a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alfred Beit Foundation (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Otherwise they probably would be sold as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alfred Beit Foundation (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I know that they are safe.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Music Industry Promotion (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 4. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she is taking to promote the Irish music industry; the other Government Departments she liaises with to advance this agenda; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23870/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Music Industry Promotion (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: This question is posed in the context of the Deloitte report launched by the Minister earlier this year which recognises the importance of the music industry in employing in excess of 11,000 people and worth €470 million annually to the economy. The report sets out several critical initiatives that should be taken to promote the sector. My question aims to establish what the Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Music Industry Promotion (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Minister for the positive initiatives to which she referred to in her reply. Has the Minister given consideration to the proposal by Deloitte to establish a music office, similar to the Irish Film Board? She referred to, IASCA, the Irish Association of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, which is doing particularly good work and how funding from the music distribution system is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Music Industry Promotion (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Notwithstanding the Minister's response, does she envisage her Department reaching some form of an agreement with the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources that would at least encourage greater airplay for the music of young and emerging artists? Another recommendation made by the Deloitte report commissioned by the Irish Music Rights Organisation was to establish a...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom leithscéal a ghabháil ar son an Teachta Seán Ó Pléamonn. Eisean an saineolaí ar an ábhar agus ar an reachtaíocht seo ach ní féidir leis bheith i láthair. I wish to make it very clear that anything we may have to say about this legislation in no way reflects on the Ceann Comhairle or the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: An Teanga Gaeilge (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 11. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht ar léigh sí an tuarascáil ina n-iarrtar coimisiún praínneach chun an Ghaeilge a shábháil sa Ghaeltacht [23873/15]