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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Service Reform Plan Measures (18 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: In the context of the Public Sector Reform Plan, the Government has agreed a range of reform actions in respect of the National Gallery of Ireland, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Crawford Art Gallery Cork. The range of reforms includes the updating and streamlining of the corporate governance framework for all three institutions. In addition, the number of board members will be...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Service Reform Plan Measures (18 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: There is no change proposed to the governance of the National Archives, which is part of my Department. The Deputy will be aware that as part of a range of reforms agreed by Government under the Public Service Reform Plan, it was decided, inter alia, that the Irish Manuscripts Commission will retain its existing functions, but be re-constituted as a pro bono committee of academic experts,...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Service Reform Plan Measures (18 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: Engagement with the national cultural institutions on the Reform Agenda is ongoing and intensive. In relation to the Boards of the National Library and the National Museum, work is ongoing bilaterally with the Directors of the institutions and regular meetings of my Departments' Reform Committee have taken place to further the implementation of the Government's Reform Plan. I intend to...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (18 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 416, 427 and 428 together. The Government's policy on the arts is to promote and strengthen the arts in all its forms, to increase access to and participation in the arts, and to make the arts an integral and valued part of our national life. The Deputies will be aware that responsibility for the promotion of the arts at all levels, including ballet, opera...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (18 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: On 8 July, I launched the first of a series of monthly lectures organised by my Department's National Monuments Service as part of The Gathering celebrations. The lectures, to which admission is free, highlight the influences of cultural and historical developments in each of the regions on the lecture circuit and have generated considerable interest from local groups and communities. The...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (18 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: My Department has a comprehensive suite of tools, both legislative and advisory, at its disposal to address reports of actual damage or threats of damage to protected structures and monuments. All known archaeological monuments, of which there are in excess of 130,000, are entitled to protection under the National Monuments Acts. The Acts allow me to make a preservation order where I...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Issues (18 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: Under the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme, three types of legal agreements have been issued and are being issued by my Department. The first is a legal agreement for qualifying turf cutters who are signing up to the annual payment of €1,500, index-linked, for 15 years. The second is a relocation interim legal agreement for qualifying turf cutters who have expressed an...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (18 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 421 and 422 together. The commemoration of the Easter Rising and the Proclamation of the Irish Republic will be the centrepiece of the Decade of Commemorations. I am working closely with my colleagues in Government and with the National Cultural Institution to bring forward appropriate proposals for comprehensive and authentic commemorations. The historic...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: World Heritage Sites (18 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: UNESCO sets out a formal process for State signatories to the World Heritage Convention for the purpose of nominating properties on their territory for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List. A particular criterion is for a site to be considered to be of outstanding universal value, defined by UNESCO as meaning of “cultural and or natural significance which is so exceptional as...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff (18 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: Currently my Department employs thirty five archaeologists. There are no archaeologists retained under the JobBridge scheme. There are no plans to employ additional archaeologists in 2013 or in 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ministerial Staff (18 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: My Department was established on 2 June 2011. The details requested by the Deputy in respect of the annualised salary costs of my own private and constituency offices, and those of Minister of State Dinny McGinley, T.D., are set out in the tables below. The staffing levels referred to are consistent with the Guidelines on Staffing of Ministerial Offices, as approved by the Government....

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Exchequer Savings (18 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: As I have previously advised the House, I appointed Mr. James Kenny and Mr. Damien Garvey as my special advisors with effect from 7th June 2011 and 2nd April 2012 respectively. Mr. Dinny Mc Ginley T.D., Minister of State in my Department has not appointed any Advisors. Both of my Advisors were appointed at the first point of the Principal Officer standard scale, in accordance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Appointments to State Boards (18 Jul 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: The information request by the Deputy relating to gender balance on the State Boards funded from my Department's Group is set out in the table below. Name Currently Serving Male Female Ratio An Foras Teanga 16 12 4 25% Ulster Scots Agency 8 4 4 50% Údarás na Gaeltachta 11 9 2 22% National Library of Ireland 11 7 4 36% National Gallery of Ireland 15 13 2 13% National...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Heritage Sites Issues (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: As I have outlined to the House on previous occasions, I have had engagement with Bank of Ireland about the possibility of making the former Houses of Parliament on College Green available for cultural usage. The building is an international landmark, a significant protected structure and has locational importance in the city of Dublin. It has a national resonance, too.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Heritage Sites Issues (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: As the Deputy knows, it is my view that the shared potential of the Bank of Ireland building for specific cultural uses would present a key opportunity, both nationally and in the public realm of Dublin city, to create, with sufficient vision, a central cultural, civic and tourism hub of strategic importance and scale. As I have said, engagement with the bank on this matter is ongoing, but...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Heritage Sites Issues (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I have had a number of meetings with Mr. Boucher. There have been a number of engagements and written correspondence, which is available through a freedom of information request. There has been serious dialogue and discussion which will continue.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Heritage Sites Issues (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I hope I made a better or more significant impression on Mr. Boucher on those occasions, but that dialogue will continue between Bank of Ireland and my Department, and between me and Mr. Boucher into the future.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: Under the EU habitats directive, each member state is required to designate special areas of conservation, SACs, for the protection of specified endangered habitats and species. Between 1997 and 2002 Ireland nominated 53 sites for designation as SACs for the protection of active raised bog, degraded raised bog still capable of natural regeneration and bog woodland. Each of these habitats is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: I have been asked a lot of supplementary questions here in the Dáil but this is certainly the most complicated type of question I have been asked. To reply to the Deputy, what is happening at this time is exactly what he sought here in his Private Members' motion way back in March of last year.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (18 Sep 2013)

Jimmy Deenihan: We appointed the consultants, RPS, who are now going out consulting with people. Nothing will happen on any of these bogs without full consultation with the local population. All we are asking here is that, when RPS go out to talk to the bog owners and, obviously, to the contractors also, there would be full engagement with them. Flooding may not be the appropriate term. It is, I...