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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes, we have a plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: It would be very helpful if the committee were to do so. We have met most of the key stakeholders and, as I said, much of what I will ultimately want to do will require legislative change around Screen Ireland's legislation. The board is too small and there needs to be designated-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: We are ultimately talking about screens and Screen Ireland has a very good reputation internationally. It does fantastic work, especially in the United States where much of this work is domiciled. I am not fixated on the name; I am more fixated on ensuring the representative sections of the sector, including gaming and animation, are properly represented. There is much work already under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes, please do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes. I met with the chairman of the Arts Council the week before last and I brought up the very issue of ensuring, in return for the €141 million that is voted from the Dáil to my Department and overseen by the committee through the Estimates and the Revised Estimate, no one is left outside the tent. Comhaltas Ceoltóirí ÉIreann should not need a separate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The reality is the chair of the Arts Council has a job to do now. I met her in the last fortnight, along with the senior officials in my Department. There is the matter of morale in the Arts Council and the arts community too, which has undoubtedly been badly impacted by these events. We are going to try to use the summer, as much as we can, to reinvigorate morale and show the arts...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will get to that in a second. There are a number of different ways age verification could be done and each one has its own pros and cons. The most important thing here from my perspective is that children are protected from seeing and being subjected to completely inappropriate material online.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am open to any suggestions but it will be done in the context of national and EU law. EU law allows us to go so far in this space. Coimisiún na Meán has done a lot very positive work on this and should be commended on it. Ultimately, as parents of young children it behoves us all to ask ourselves "Is the current situation suitable, and is it reflective of where we want Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I did not say that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: All the cables we have at present are privately owned-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is massive.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Meetings (9 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: In support of Action 19 in the Report of the Night-Time Economy Taskforce and as part of the Department's key role in driving the Night-Time Economy in Ireland, we are funding 9 NTE Advisors in Dublin City, Cork City, Limerick City, Galway City, Kilkenny, Sligo, Longford, Buncrana and Drogheda. The Night-Time Economy (NTE) pilots are a significant project within the Night-Time Economy...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (9 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Programme for Government – Securing Ireland’s Future published in January 2025 sets a number of targets which include the completion of the installation of high-speed fibre broadband to 1.1 million people, including homes, farms, and businesses nationwide, by 2026. The National Broadband Plan (NBP) is the Government's initiative to deliver high speed broadband services...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Facilities (9 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Reply not received from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (9 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The National Broadband Plan (NBP) is the Government's initiative to deliver high speed broadband services to all premises in Ireland. The premises in question is in the BLUE area on the broadband map which is available on my Department's website . The BLUE area represents those areas where commercial providers are either currently delivering or have plans to deliver high-speed broadband...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (9 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Question refers to a premises located in the AMBER area on the National Broadband Plan (NBP) High Speed Broadband Map which is available on my Department's website www.broadband.gov.ie The AMBER area represents the area to be served by the network to be deployed under the NBP State led intervention. NBI have advised that the premises in question is included in the Dowra Deployment...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Arts Council (9 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Reply not received from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Bodies (9 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 82 and 83 together. HR matters in the bodies under the Department's aegis are operational matters for those bodies. From time to time, my Department advises the bodies under its aegis of changes in public service HR policy, and application of that policy, such as the implementation of national pay increases under the Public Services Agreement and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (8 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 452 and 454 together. My Department in its current configuration was established on 2 June 2025. The previous configuration of my Department as the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media was established in September 2020 and I am advised that there was no expenditure on any of the specified services referenced in the Deputy's...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (8 Jul 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Government’s Digital Connectivity Strategy (DCS) aims to have all Irish households and businesses covered by a gigabit network by 2028. A fibre network is faster, consumes less energy and is more reliable than a copper network. The main copper network is owned by Eir (a private entity) and as such the ongoing operation and maintenance of it is a commercial matter for...