Results 701-720 of 1,108 for speaker:Sinéad Gibney

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 72. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he is aware of the practice of agencies and employers charging workers recruited from overseas illegitimate recruitment fees in order to secure their employment; whether his Department plans to issue any guidance to permit holders on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40171/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the weekly actual and target average turnaround times for South African visa applicants, broken down by category of visa, for the past three months, in tabular form. [39817/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 273. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the unit within her Department that is responsible for alcohol policy outside of the enforcement of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 282. To ask the Minister for Health in view of recent statements from the Tánaiste on pausing the implementation of alcohol labelling, when alcohol labelling will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40034/25]

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I apologise for having had to pop out. I have just a few questions. The first is about sport. The community sport facilities fund is seeing an increase of roughly 50%, which is really welcome. I see that the target reach of the fund in terms of payments made and, by extension, clubs and initiatives supported has increased by only 14%. Can the Minister of State outline the rationale for...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Moving on to broadcasting, one figure jumped out at me and I am sure there is an easy enough explanation for it. It was under financial and human resources inputs, C7, Coimisiún na Meán. The funding seems to have decreased from €5 million to €150,000. Is that accounted for elsewhere or is there a decrease or was it to do with the setup costs?

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Okay, so it was just that first year for setup and now it has its own income. Perfect. I thank the Minister for that. Do the targets for the numbers of hours of Irish-language programming per day encapsulate RTÉ and TG4 together? Do they also bring together all TV programming, public and private? As a follow-on question, would the Minister consider breaking up those targets...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Please. That would be great because they are just slightly different in that they have that different objective of Irish-language support, so it would be helpful to see Irish-language broadcasting not just in one bucket but rather through the different channels providing it. On arts and culture and the basic income for the arts scheme, this is just a small thing, but the output targets...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Goodness.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Exactly.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Yes, they do an incredible job. That money goes straight into the economy and straight into those communities. It would be great to see that extended and replicated. Sometimes, perhaps, TG4 and its success have been somewhat overshadowed by other broadcasters in these discussions. It is important to make sure they are kept prominent and front and centre.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Exactly, yes.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: The target and outputs for individual artists in receipt of funding is 2,100. That is the same as last year, as is the target for organisations. Does that figure for individual artists include the basic income scheme?

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Are there any plans to expand that or increase those targets?

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: The output targets for the number of film and television projects funded by Screen Ireland are also lower this year than they were last year. In the context of wanting to support the fantastic work of Irish writers, directors, producers and actors, why are we not seeing an increase in the target for projects supported in that area?

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I absolutely endorse that because the fact that production is so concentrated in Dublin and Wicklow is an issue. We do need to see efforts to stimulate it outside of that hub. I welcome that. I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I have a follow-up question on the basic income for the arts scheme. I do not think I said in the last round that I think it is brilliant that it is being rolled out for artists. I appreciate that the scheme is particularly suited to the artistic community where there is so much precarity and difficulty in making a living. I also have an interest in how basic income can be applied into...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Okay, thank you.