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Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils Tax (27 Apr 2022)

Jack Chambers: The debate has been had.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (26 Apr 2022)

Jack Chambers: CSO launched a public consultation on the content of the Census 2022 questionnaire in late 2017. As part of this consultation, members of the public and interested stakeholders were invited to submit their requests for new questions and revisions to existing questions. To assist the CSO in assessing the submissions, a Census Advisory Group (CAG) was formed. Membership of the CAG was drawn...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Funding (26 Apr 2022)

Jack Chambers: My Department has not allocated any funding to the organisation in question from 1January 2017 to date.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (26 Apr 2022)

Jack Chambers: The Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) is the primary vehicle for government support for the development of sports and physical recreation facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports equipment throughout the country. Its objectives are to: - assist voluntary and community organisations, national governing bodies (NGBs) of sport, local authorities and Education and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (26 Apr 2022)

Jack Chambers: As per the published 2020 Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) Guide to Making an Application, if an organisation is applying for a regional facility, the applicant must include a letter from its national governing body of sport confirming the regional status of the project. No such letter was included in the application from the club in question. As detailed in the Guide, Regional...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (26 Apr 2022)

Jack Chambers: As the Deputy states in his question, the video games which underpin e-sports are generally developed and run by the sector itself through video game studios. The development of and promotion of the sector are a matter for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. My Department has no plans to introduce regulation for the e-sport sector as we have no role or remit in relation to e-sport.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (26 Apr 2022)

Jack Chambers: The 2020 round of the SCEP closed for applications on Monday 1 March 2021 and by the deadline a record 3,100 applications were submitted.  Approximately one thousand of the submitted applications were for 'equipment-only' projects. These applications were assessed first and grants with a total value of €16.6M were announced on 6 August, 2021. The remaining capital applications...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (28 Apr 2022)

Jack Chambers: I have referred the Deputy's question to Sport Ireland for direct reply with details of the fees or payments made by Sport Ireland as requested by the Deputy. I would ask the Deputy to inform my office if a reply is not received within 10 days.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (28 Apr 2022)

Jack Chambers: As outlined in previous replies on this matter,  the club to which the Deputy refers was provisionally allocated a grant of €81,500 under the 2017 Sports Capital Programme (SCP) for the development of an artificial playing surface and a further €83,343 under the 2018 SCP towards the provision of floodlights and non-personal sports equipment. In accordance with the...

Local Government and Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Carrigaline Rent Pressure Zone) Bill 2022: First Stage (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: No.

Safe Deposit Boxes and related Deposits Bill 2022: First Stage (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: No.

Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Referral to Joint Committee (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022, a copy of which has been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 21st April, 2022, be referred to the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, in accordance with Standing Order 95(5), which,...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 30th July, 2020, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Social Protection, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I thank Senators Malcolm Byrne, Cassells, Carrigy and Higgins for speaking to this amendment. I want to relay the apologies of the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Catherine Martin, who has had a bereavement in her family and cannot be here this evening. Section 19 of the Broadcasting Act 2009, as inserted by section 7 of the Bill, provides that an...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I thank all of the Senators for what they have said, as well as for their bona fides. I hear what they have said. There was significant pre-legislative scrutiny on the Bill. This particularly impacts on young people and children. The amendments that the Senators have sought to progress is to ensure the centrality of their voice in how policy is iterated and how it is implemented. In the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: No, I have made my point.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I understand the intention of the Senator's amendment. It rests on the question of whether the phrase "shall have regard to" should be interpreted as requiring the commission to follow whatever advice is given unless there is a compelling case not to. The legal advice that the Minister has received regarding this phraseology is that, where a public body shall have regard to a thing, it may...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I thank Senator Higgins. I understand the purpose of amendment No. 60 is to ensure there is sufficient distinction between the levy under the new section 21 of the Broadcasting Act 2009, as inserted by section 7 of the Bill, which will be used to meet the expenses of the commission incurred in the course of discharging its regulatory functions set out in the Bill in the Broadcasting Act...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I thank Senator Higgins. I will say again that this has been reviewed by the Office of the Attorney General and our legal advice is there is sufficient distinction as currently drafted. The levy to fund the expenses of an coimisiún and a levy to fund the content are in two completely different sections of the Bill. The levy to fund the expenses is in section 21 and the levy to fund...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: As I said, they are in two completely different sections. It has been fully reviewed. The legal advice and legal interpretation of the sections as drafted is that there is sufficient distinction presently and there is not a requirement to insert the amendments the Senator has proposed.