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Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It must be heartbreaking for those on the housing waiting lists to daily pass boarded up homes or the many derelict, abandoned or underutilised private homes on their way to bringing their kids to school, day in, day out and year in, year out. It is scandalous in a housing crisis - an emergency - that all homes connected to sewers, water and electricity do not have families in them. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Deputy O'Gorman will have his chance to speak in a minute.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Glaoim ar an Teachta Byrne.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Táimid ag rith as am agus mar sin ligfidh mé don Teachta Daly ceist uimh. 114 a chur agus freagra a fháil air.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Michael Cahill - To discuss if the N70 national secondary Ring of Kerry road can be brought up to an acceptable standard. Deputy Malcolm Byrne - To discuss the planned extension of a secondary school in Carnew, County Wicklow,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Miscarriages of Justice (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know how much the Minister of State knows, or even remembers, about what occurred in 1976 and thereafter following the robbery by the IRA of €150,000 from a train at Sallins, County Kildare. It was an audacious robbery at the time that hit all the headlines. What did not really hit the headlines afterwards was the Garda Síochána arrest, torture and beating of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Miscarriages of Justice (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister received this correspondence almost two years ago, so it is taking a long time to receive attention. The matter itself should be receiving attention even though it is 50 years on. There is no doubting the innocence of the men; that is not why we are seeking an inquiry. The reason is the fact that the State had a system where there were rogue gardaí and non-rogue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: An Plean Náisiúnta um Sheirbhísí Poiblí Gaeilge 2024-2030: An Roinn Forbartha Pobail agus Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá fáilte roimh na hoifigigh. Tá súil againn go n-éireoidh leis na pleananna ar fad atá os a gcomhair. Táimid ag fanacht go fóill ar an gceann is tábhachtaí; an ceann a leagann síos na caighdeáin. Bhí scéimeanna sa reachtaíocht a bhí ann roimhe seo - ní ann dóibh a thuilleadh - agus dá bhrí...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: An Plean Náisiúnta um Sheirbhísí Poiblí Gaeilge 2024-2030: An Roinn Forbartha Pobail agus Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tuigim sin. Ní cáineadh atá i gceist ach nuair a bhí an plé ann, dúradh linn nach mbeadh ann ach cúpla mí agus gurb é sin an fáth nach raibh spriocdháta ann. Scaoilim an argóint go bhfuilimid ag iarraidh go mbeadh an próiseas beartaithe laistigh de sé mhí ach dúradh linn nach raibh gá dáta mar sin a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: An Plean Náisiúnta um Sheirbhísí Poiblí Gaeilge 2024-2030: An Roinn Forbartha Pobail agus Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá ceist eile agam. Is ceist theicniúil í. Luaigh an Roinn staitisticí maidir le 11% de rannpháirtithe a rinne an suirbhé ag leibhéal B2, agus 13% ag leibhéal B1. An bhfuil an 11% san áireamh i leibhéal B2? Is comhartha maith é. Is é sin an fáth ar chuir mé an cheist. Tá nach mór aon cheathrú nach...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá brón orm as a bheith mall. Bhí mé istigh sa Dáil. I apologise if any of these questions have been asked. I was not following proceedings as I was in the Dáil. My questions relate to the buy-out contracts. Do we need to amend the Bill to ensure it prohibits buy-out contracts for performers and writers? Can we ensure there is full compliance with copyright...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can produce people here who have been recently asked by RTÉ to sign away their residuals. That is for another thing, whereas this is for the future. Is Mr. Carson happy to ensure that copyright law and people's rights to payment for their acting and for producing services would be fully protected?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is a habit whereby if someone does not sign away their rights they do not get any work in the future. It is not just RTÉ. I am not picking on RTÉ, but these issues have been raised with me lately. On Coimisiún na Meán, the Minister has produced in this draft legislation the power to curtail the European works levy. Does an coimisiún have a view on what the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If this legislation is enacted in the way the Minister expects, the scheme will not be devised unless the Minister issues a directive to Coimisiún na Meán.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not want to put Mr. Ó Domhnaill in a predicament. When it was presented, the Minister was opposed to the levy. Therefore, he would be taking away the power Coimisiún na Meán has at present to commission work or prepare for a scheme of the kind in question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Usually with a feasibility study, people are asked to change this, that and the other rather than totally scrap it and say one is going to have the power in the future. Go raibh maith agat as sin. On Comptroller and Auditor General oversight, the Minister, Deputy O’Donovan, has told the Dáil he could not accept my Bill on the Comptroller and Auditor General coming under the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know. It suggests RTÉ does not trust the Comptroller and Auditor General if it has to get a second opinion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I just cannot see why you would audit something already audited or why anybody would go down that route. I do not believe anybody has ever questioned the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s ability to carry out its work. Since there is the next step, the PAC, which oversees the Comptroller and Auditor General-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: A dual audit of certain parts rather than the whole lot, which seems to suggest RTÉ will have a private audit of itself, followed by the Comptroller and Auditor General doing the exact same thing, meaning a delay in the provision of accounts for scrutiny. It seems very odd although I understand the point Mr. Larragy made on Uisce Éireann. There are other semi-State companies in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not the whole of RTÉ that has to be done, but-----