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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 Jul 2021)

Niamh Smyth: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SUSI qualification thresholds will be increased; the other initiatives he plans to assist students and their families meet the financial challenges of higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37691/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 Jul 2021)

Niamh Smyth: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the SUSI deduction for holiday earnings earned outside of term time up to a maximum of €4,500 is being applied to students who received the pandemic unemployment payment instead as their employment was interrupted by the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37692/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Jul 2021)

Niamh Smyth: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the funding that his Department makes available to local authorities for the housing adaptation grant; his views on the way in which the current level of funding is continually excluding many persons from getting work done; his views on the way Monaghan County Council’s budget for 2021 is already...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Jul 2021)

Niamh Smyth: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the way the underfunding of the housing adaptation grant results in families being unable to get sensory rooms fitted out; his further views on the fact that when families apply for this funding from Monaghan County Council that the money allocated has been spent; his views on the impact that this is having on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Jul 2021)

Niamh Smyth: 163. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for the delay in obtaining passports for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38378/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Jul 2021)

Niamh Smyth: 238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the circumstances under which a person can access rent supplement and or HAP when they are not on a local authority housing list. [38385/21]

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jul 2021)

Niamh Smyth: Fianna Fáil supports the Bill and its primary purpose, that is, to provide that any person or firm carrying on a business of providing credit, hire purchase or consumer hire agreements to consumers and other relevant persons will fall within the authorisation and regulatory remit of the Central Bank of Ireland. This will give the Central Bank the necessary legislative basis to apply its...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Making Europe Fit for the Digital Age: EU Commissioner for Competition (23 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: Before I introduce our witness for this session, I ask the members of the committee to ratify the draft minutes of our previous public and private meetings, which were held on 16 June. Are the minutes formally agreed and there are no matters arising? Agreed. This meeting has been convened to hear from the European Commission Executive Vice-President and Commissioner for Competition,...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Making Europe Fit for the Digital Age: EU Commissioner for Competition (23 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: I thank Ms Vestager for that insightful introduction to our discussion today. I am sure the sentiments she expressed this afternoon will be very much reflected in our members' thoughts and questions. The members are aware of the speaking slots and I will turn first to Deputy Imelda Munster.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Making Europe Fit for the Digital Age: EU Commissioner for Competition (23 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: Senator Carrigy may get the chance to make a second contribution. To be fair, he had a shorter time. Is Deputy Dillon on the call? No. Does Deputy Griffin have any questions?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Making Europe Fit for the Digital Age: EU Commissioner for Competition (23 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Commissioner very much. She has had a busy hour responding to all of our members. I also thank our members. At the risk of sounding repetitive, which is not what I want to do, the Commissioner has covered everything comprehensively. It falls to me to conclude. The erosion of democracy is something that has left our countries and world highly vulnerable. We saw what happened...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Making Europe Fit for the Digital Age: EU Commissioner for Competition (23 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: The one thing we have learned is that while Zoom is fine and brings us to a certain level, we cannot beat face-to-face conversations in the same room and, as the Commissioner said, seeing the twinkle in people's eyes and reading the body language. We do miss that and we look forward to getting back to that day very soon. I thank the Commissioner most sincerely for being with us today and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Making Europe Fit for the Digital Age: EU Commissioner for Competition (23 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: We will now suspend to allow the secretariat to make arrangements for the next session with representatives from the Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the music and entertainment sectors.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Impact of Covid-19 on the Entertainment Sector: Music Entertainment Association of Ireland (23 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: This meeting with representatives from the Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland, MEAI, has been convened to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the entertainment sector. I welcome Mr. Jackie Conboy, a co-founder of the MEAI, and his colleague, Mr. Matt McGranaghan. They will be joining us remotely via Microsoft Teams. The format of the meeting is that I will invite our witnesses to...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Impact of Covid-19 on the Entertainment Sector: Music Entertainment Association of Ireland (23 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: I appreciate Mr. Conboy's very positive comments. Many members of the committee are directly or indirectly involved in the industry as well, or were in former lives. I believe Mr. McGranaghan is not going to give a presentation but he is there for answers as well, as we have a very short session. I advise members that rather than the speaking slot method we used last time, we are going to...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Impact of Covid-19 on the Entertainment Sector: Music Entertainment Association of Ireland (23 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: I apologise to Deputy Munster but I must keep these slots short to get to everybody. I must move on.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Impact of Covid-19 on the Entertainment Sector: Music Entertainment Association of Ireland (23 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: I call Senator Carrigy. I ask him to be as brief as he can to give everybody a chance to get in. I remind members we only have 20 minutes for this session, so I ask them to keep it to one question, comment or statement so I can give everybody a shot.