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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Census of Population (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The 1926 Census was taken on the night of 18 April 1926 and is the next full set of census records available in Ireland following the 1911 and 1901 censuses. The National Archives, in collaboration with the CSO, is preparing the 1926 Census for publication. Cataloguing, conservation, digitisation and transcription of the 1.5 million census returns is underway. This work is on track for...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Census of Population (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The 1926 Census was taken on the night of 18 April 1926 and is the next full set of census records available in Ireland following the 1911 and 1901 censuses. The National Archives, in collaboration with the CSO, is preparing the 1926 Census for publication. Cataloguing, conservation, digitisation and transcription of the 1.5 million census returns is underway. This work is on track for...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: My Department works with the Department of Foreign Affairs to identify possible locations for the International Famine Commemoration. There have been twelve international commemorations of the Great Irish Famine to date. Since the first international commemoration in Toronto and Quebec in 2009, events have also been held in Australia, Canada and the UK. As well as the International Famine...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 460 and 461 together. In July 2024, the Secretary General of the Department initiated an examination of the Arts Council's ICT project which was completed on 6 February 2025. I published the Report on the Examination of the Arts Council Business Transformation Project on the 12th of February on the Department's website. It makes a number of key findings...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Surveys (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: In support of Action 7 in the Department commissioned a survey in 2024, to examine the issues for patrons and artists with disabilities when going out at night and engaging in cultural activities. The issue of accessibility and the barriers that currently exist in the Night-Time Economy (NTE) has been raised on a number of occasions. The survey closed in June 2024 for submissions and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Legislative Programme (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The General Scheme of the Registration of Short Term Tourist Letting Bill was approved by Government and published in December 2022. This Bill provided for the establishment of regulatory controls, including a register for all Short Term Letting (STL) properties. Following a legally required notification of the General Scheme to the European Commission under the Technical Regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Consultations (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the information sought in respect of external legal consultation for my Department is set out in the table below. Year External Legal Consultancy Provider Purpose of Consultancy Report/Recommendations Total cost (incl. VAT) 2023/2024 McCann Fitzgerald To (i) advise the Expert...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Strategies (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) report on the accounts of the Public Services 2023 included a Chapter on Performance Information for Programme B Arts & Culture and Programme D Sport. The report set out the following recommendation for the Department: Recommendation 10.1 from report states that "The Department should complete an evaluation of its performance...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Department, through Sport Ireland, provides funding to encourage women and girls to participate, and remain in, sport. Sport Ireland distributes the funding, on behalf of Government, to National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and Local Sports Partnerships (LSPs). The Women in Sport funding programme is in place since 2005 and, since then, over €30 million has been invested through the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: My Department operates two capital funding programmes for sport, the Community Sport Facilities Fund (CSFF), formerly known as the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme, and the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF). My Department also administers a range of funding schemes in other sectors outside of the capital funding schemes for sport. Details of these funding schemes are set out...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: My Department in its current configuration was established in September 2020. My Department's records show that data on the final costs of public procurement tenders (over €25,000), where my Department acted as the contracting authority, and where the contract has been completed and costs finalised, in each year since September 2020 are set out in the table below. Regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: In July 2024, the Secretary General of the Department initiated an examination of the Arts Council's ICT project which was completed on 6 February 2025. I published the Report on the Examination of the Arts Council Business Transformation Project last Wednesday, the 12th of February. It makes a number of key findings and 36 recommendations which will be implemented by my Department and the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Media Sector (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Section 46N(4)(a) of the Broadcasting and Other Media Regulation Acts 2009 and 2022 empowers Coimisiún na Meán to make media service codes setting out standards and practices to promote balanced gender representation of participants in news and current affairs programmes broadcast by broadcasters or made available by providers of audiovisual on-demand media services. As...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ministerial Responsibilities (25 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 479 and 481 together. Charlie McConalogue TD, was appointed Minister of State for Sport and Postal Policy by An Taoiseach Micheál Martin on 29 January 2025. I look forward to working closely with Minister of State McConalogue to progress the remit of this Department. Arrangements for the transfer of Ministerial functions, including the delegation...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (27 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 255, 256 and 259 together. The proposed Short Term Letting and Tourism (STLT) Bill will provide the statutory basis for the establishment of a register for short term lets in Ireland which will facilitate the production of quality data on short term letting accommodation. However, until that point, it is not possible to provide accurate data on such...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (27 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 257 and 258 together. The proposed Short Term Letting and Tourism (STLT) Bill will provide the statutory basis for the establishment of a register for short term lets in Ireland which will facilitate the production of quality data on short term letting accommodation. However, until that point, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the quantum of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (27 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I note from the report my Department carried out on the Examination of The Arts Council Business Transformation Programme that "following the cancellation of the June 2022 scheduled launch of the system due to the level of defects identified in testing, the Arts Council withheld payments totalling €200k from two external suppliers, and has since sought to engage in a redress process...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (27 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The overall approved staffing level for the Arts Council increased from 47 in 2018 to 146 in 2024. In the same period, in line with the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies, the Department sanctioned a number of IT-related positions, including Head of ICT, Technical Launch Manager and Director of Information Technology. The main IT appointments sanctioned are set out...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (27 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Under the Arts Act 2003, the allocation of grant funding is an operational matter for the Arts Council. However, I am informed by the Arts Council that the section of the annual report referred to is in relation to a human error made in the issuing of grant allocation letters which was quickly rectified. The lessons learned referred to mitigation taken by the Arts Council to ensure it does...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (27 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Chapter 5 of the Report on the Examination of the Arts Council Business Transformation Project outlines the role and broad make-up of the Stakeholder Board (July 2019 – June 2022) and the Steering Committee (February 2023 to August 2024). As set out in the report, a condition of the sanction granted by the Digital Government Oversight Unit of the then Department of Public...