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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Do not trust computers; it is a trap. I am conscious that we are talking about the future of the An Post network. Last year, in Dublin 12, we had an unfortunate situation when one of our postpersons retained a lot of post which resulted in people missing appointments, including medical appointments. After the fact a lot of post was found in a room of a house. An awful lot of people did...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (2 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting this Commencement matter and making time for it in the schedule after last week's mishap. I thank the Minister for making time this morning. I know she is very busy as we approach the recess. I appreciate her coming to the House today to discuss an escalating crisis in early life healthcare. Our HSE public health nurses do important work. I want to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (2 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I thank the Minister. That piece of information on the six additional whole-time equivalent nurses is new. If they are beginning in September 2025, that will significantly impact in a positive way in the Dublin areas the Minister mentioned. If she has an opportunity to pass word back to the HSE and the managers in the area, it is important that, as part of that workload in September, they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: That is all right; I will take it. I thank the Department officials for coming in again. I was not sure where I would start, but I might just pick up on what Senator Comyn said about the legal challenges and where those are at. I was really surprised to see the clarification in Mr. Ó Coigligh's opening statement around the cost, and when the Arts Council or the Department was told to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Chair, did we get a communication on this? The Arts Council told this committee, not the Department, that the figure was €60,000. Its representatives were asked repeatedly if it was definitely just €60,000. I asked a lot of questions about accounting and finance competencies on the Arts Council board. Did we get a communication from the Arts Council to correct the record?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Okay. I think-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Yes, it was just that it was such a talking point around money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: It would have been an important clarification to get from the Arts Council because, as Mr. Ó Coigligh said in his opening statement, these State bodies are accountable for public money. They are accountable for the money, and I think the Arts Council should have clarified that sooner than today, frankly, through the Department. It should have come straight to the committee on this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I have, but I just wonder what the breakdown is. How much of it is about money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I am sorry; it is this breakdown I have in front of me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I thought it was a different list. I apologise. That is my mistake.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: It refers to Powerpoint communications and covering issues in the budget, so there are about 17 items on the budget. Did Mr. Ó Coigligh feel like he was up to date and informed on the runaway train that was the money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: When the €5.3 million was written off by the Arts Council, which was a surprise to Mr. Ó Coigligh, did that ring alarm bells for him in terms of oversight and governance of bodies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Mr. Ó Coigligh told Senator Comyn what had changed with regard to ICT projects and oversight since this all happened. What are his views on State bodies needing to have that ICT capability? There was a suggestion from Ms Maura McGrath that maybe that needed to be addressed. What is Mr. Ó Coigligh's feeling on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Is it a challenge for all of those bodies under the Department's remit?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I ask for an opportunity to have a debate in this House about the sportsperson’s tax rebate. On retirement, Irish athletes who have lived and trained in Ireland are entitled to claim tax back on 40% of their earnings from their sport. The then Minister for Finance, Charlie McCreevy, first introduced sportsperson's tax relief in 2002 and, at the time, said the measures were being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Mr. Ó Coigligh said that he parked that. Did he mean that the off-the-shelf system was parked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I know. Does that mean the system to which Deputy Byrne referred, which failed in 2023, is still being used now by the Arts Council?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I do not know if that was clear a couple of weeks ago. I think we assumed the Arts Council got the off-the-shelf system up and running. I will not take too much longer. In respect of the Professor Niamh Brennan review of governance, is an interim report expected? Is it a case of waiting until the report is finished?