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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Official Travel (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: While I have no plans at present to visit the west coast of the US before the end of 2024, I was pleased to lead a trade mission to Los Angeles and San Diego to promote the Irish screen industry last year, together with Screen Ireland, Tourism Ireland, the I.D.A., and the Department of Foreign Affairs. This trade mission was part of the Government’s St Patrick’s Day programme...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Budget 2025 (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: Grassroots venues help support and nurture our artists, bands and musicians at the start of their career and are so important in generating vibrancy and cultural diversity in our night-time economy. The grant scheme which I recently announced in Budget 2025 will provide much needed support for these venues. My officials will now begin working through the details and parameters of this...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: I wish to acknowledge the important role that the community media sector plays within the overall media landscape, and I commend these stations as they fulfil a vital role in community engagement, cohesion, and in the promotion of social inclusion in our communities large and small. In Budget 2025 I secured €6m in funding for 2025 to expand the Sound and Vision Scheme to support...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Creative Youth Plan (9 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: Creative Schools is a flagship initiative of the Creative Youth Plan 2023-2027, supporting schools to put the arts and creativity at the heart of children’s and young people’s lives. Since 2018, the initiative has supported schools to develop and implement a bespoke Creative Schools plan over 2 years. It is led by the Arts Council in partnership with my Department and the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (9 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 101 and 102 together. I welcome the Joint Oireachtas Committee's report on 'The Development of Local and Community Arts' which was recently published. The recommendations broadly align in many instances with policies and programmes in place in my Department in relation to areas such as local arts infrastructure, disability, and arts and health. The...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reviews (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: Whilst the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media has only existed in its current configuration since mid-2020, an Organisation Capability Review (OCR) was carried out in respect of the then Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in 2019. An Implementation Plan was subsequently developed in early 2020 with a number of actions identified across five themes....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (17 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: The table below shows the monthly number of first time licence sales and renewals, as recorded by An Post, since January 2022. MONTH Total Sales 2022 First Time Renewal Total Sales 2023 First Time Renewal Total Sales 2024 First Time Renewal January 78,050 10,236 67,814 ...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (17 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: I have met with the Chairperson of RTÉ, Mr. Terence O’Rourke on six occasions, since his appointment by the Government on 5 March 2024. Meetings with the Chairperson took place on the following dates: 7 March 2024 (Video link meeting); 19 March 2024 (In-person meeting); 7 May 2024 (Video link meeting); 29 May 2024 (In-person meeting); 1 July 2024 (Video link meeting); and 23...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (17 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: On 7 May 2024, the Government accepted in principle the 90 recommendations of the Expert Advisory Committee appointed to carry out a review of the Governance and Culture in RTÉ. While the majority of the recommendations require implementation by RTÉ, 15 require measures or actions to be carried out by my Department. An implementation plan, setting out how my Department would...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (17 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: The RTÉ Chairperson advised me at a meeting on 29 May 2024, that RTÉ was in the process of negotiating a mediated exit settlement through the Workplace Relations (WRC) for a senior member of staff, that the process was ongoing, would be considered by the Board’s Remuneration Committee, and that the Chairperson would provide me with an update on the matter in due course. ...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (17 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: On 7 May 2024, the Government accepted in principle the 116 recommendations of the Expert Advisory Committees appointed to carry out reviews of RTÉ in relation to Governance and Culture and Contractor Fees, HR and Other Matters. The re-assignment of the Comptroller and Auditor General as auditor of RTÉ was a key recommendation of the Expert Advisory Committee on Governance and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Legal Cases (16 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: My Department in its current configuration was established in September 2020. In seeking to provide the Deputy with the information requested, the assumption has been made that the question relates to civil proceedings taken against my Department or one of its offices. In this regard, a case has been taken against my Department in the Circuit Court in Donegal as a second defendant, which...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Data Protection (16 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: I refer the Deputy to my reply to his question (PQ 45345/23, Dáil Number 297), which provides the details requested since the formation of my Department in it's current configuration in September 2020 up to 3 October 2023. The table below provides the additional information being sought since my previous reply in the same format. I am advised that all of the additional breaches listed...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Official Travel (16 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below. Details of my expenses are also published on my Department's website www.gov.ie/en/organisation-information/e9c55-ministerial-exp enses/#2024 These include travel and subsistence costs in respect of domestic and foreign travel. Personal expenses incurred by accompanying officials are claimed by the individual officers...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (16 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: The Communications Unit of my Department, comprising the Press Office and Digital Communications teams, fulfil the public relations remit within the Department. As such, I am advised by my officials that there has been no expenditure on, or external assistance sought with, Departmental or Ministerial public relations since my Department was constituted in its current configuration in...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Consultations (16 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: My Department in its current configuration was established in September 2020. From time to time, my Department commissions experts to provide technical reports or advice on specific issues. While the providers of these services may describe themselves as consultants, their work is not classified as consultancy services and is not funded from my Department's Administrative Budget. I wish...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Advertising (16 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: Please see below details in tabular form of advertising expenditure each year since my Department was constituted in its current configuration in September 2020. I am advised that it is not possible to tabulate the expenditure between print media and other media formats, as my Departmental expenditure is on a per-campaign basis, and is allocated via media buying agencies. The figures provided...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff (15 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: There are currently 11 officers assigned to the Communications and Press Office team in this Department. Since the formation of this Department in September 2020, a total of 21 officers have spent some time assigned to the Communications and Press Office team. This team is responsible for informing the public about the Department’s programmes and progress against the Statement of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Advertising (15 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: My Department ran a number of advertising campaigns this year as part of its overall drive to effectively communicate with the public and stakeholders, which is essential in achieving its goals. To this end, paid advertising is used to promote a wide range of schemes and programmes operated under the auspices of the Department, and to support engagement and consultation with citizens and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (15 Oct 2024)

Catherine Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 340 and 341 together. While I recognise the potential impact on viewers in Northern Ireland, at an operational level the acquisition of sports rights and the geographical areas in which they are broadcast is a commercial matter for the relevant sporting bodies, which usually provide broadcasting licences on an exclusive territorial basis. Neither I nor my...