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

Sinéad Gibney: The Minister did not answer. He dismissed it.

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

Sinéad Gibney: I am here to ask questions and I am not getting satisfactory answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank all the witnesses for being here. Their opening comments in particular were incredibly inspiring and positive. I really welcome how they are framing the integration as an opportunity. Obviously, they have led the way in doing that themselves, which is really clear. They have touched on some of the questions I had around gender, so I will not go any further into that. Ms Maher...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: One of the other issues of interest to me in the broader sporting arena is trans participation, which has become a very volatile topic in the US. I know the GAA and the GPA have been very positive and inclusive in everything they do. What does that integration look like for LGBTQI+ players and, in particular, the question of trans participation in sports? When I am canvassing I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: When I say I am horrified, it is not because I think there is a safety issue. Rather, I am horrified that there is misinformation that parents think there is a safety issue. Does Mr. Parsons think there is a safety issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Other colleagues have covered some of the topics. When the associations come before the committee in a few weeks' time what should we ask them?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Arts Policy (14 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 550. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timelines for applications and commencement of the successor scheme to the basic income for the arts scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55109/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Arts Policy (14 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 551. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the successor scheme to the basic income for the arts scheme will provide the same level of support to the same number of artists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55110/25]

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

Sinéad Gibney: The Minister is before the committee and that is why I asked the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank the witnesses. I am sorry that I had to pop out to the Chamber briefly. To pick up on the gender questions, one that has always intrigued me is the use of the term “ladies” rather than “women.” I am not a lady. I do not consider myself a lady. I find it an exclusionary term. It is not that funny. I have studied it in equality studies and, genuinely,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Does anybody else have a view?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Yes, exactly.

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Táimid uilig sásta go bhfuilimid ag iarraidh Éire aontaithe ach caithfimid an obair a dhéanamh ionas go dtarlóidh sé. We in the Social Democrats welcome this motion because the work needs to be done. We need to prepare for and implement the suggestions to build that road towards a united Ireland. They are not new suggestions. They have been knocking around...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (21 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in the context of the recent ceasefire, the steps Ireland is taking to pursue accountability over the genocide in Gaza, and the continued occupation of the West Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57171/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (21 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I know we all welcome the ceasefire in Gaza, fragile as it is, as we heard this evening, but it is disheartening that Palestinians continue to die at the hands of Israel. With continuing illegal annexation of the West Bank and the Tánaiste's own words calling what happened in Gaza a genocide, what is he doing to seek accountability for these crimes against humanity?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (21 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: With respect, the Government has kicked the occupied territories Bill down the road. It appears set to exclude services, despite that being legally necessary and legally possible and recommended by Government backbenchers on the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade. The ceasefire does not negate the ICJ ruling on the occupied territories, neither do statements on difficulties...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (21 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Of course I support the peace and of course we also support the priority of delivering aid to the starving people of Palestine, but that does not remove the elephant in the room of the occupied territories Bill, because that is the very tangible way we can enact sanctions and action against Israel. The aid and leadership we provided are very welcome, but people are keen to hear that, just...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Aircraft (21 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider not granting authorisation for future stopovers of US military planes and planes under the command of the US military in Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57130/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Aircraft (21 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: For a long time we have allowed the US military to use Shannon Airport. Over a number of years, we have seen countless protests on this subject - it has been decades, in fact - of a threat to our neutrality and a facilitation of US military operations which contravene our foreign policy. Despite this, on 12 October a US Department of War charter plane carrying troops and munitions of war to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Aircraft (21 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: In November 2023, the then Fine Gael leader, Leo Varadkar, told the Dáil that no US military flights going through Shannon were going to Israel. This seems to have been the policy of successive Irish Governments since 2006. Now it appears that as well as diplomatic clearance, the Department of Transport signed off on the plane carrying munitions of war through Irish airspace to Israel,...