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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (4 Mar 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Details of the Live Performance Restart Grant Scheme recipients are listed in the table below along with details of payments made to those recipients under the Pilot Live Performance Support Scheme, the Live Performance Support Scheme 2021, the Live Performance Support Scheme -Strand II and the Live Performance Support Scheme Phase 3.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (4 Mar 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Department's role in relation to tourism lies primarily in the area of national tourism policy and implementation of that policy is a matter for the tourism agencies, Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland. The matter raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for both agencies. Accordingly, I have referred this question to both Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland for direct...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 413 and 415 together. In relation to tourism policy generally, work is underway to examine how the Tourism Policy Framework 2025 - 2030 as published last November best aligns with the tourism-related commitments in the new Programme for Government.My colleague Mr. Peter Burke TD, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, will have formal...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (4 Mar 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Department's role in relation to tourism lies primarily in the area of national tourism policy and implementation of that policy is a matter for the tourism agencies, Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland. The matter raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for Fáilte Ireland. Accordingly, I have referred this question to that agency for direct response to the Deputy....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Inquiries (4 Mar 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Tourism and Hospitality Careers Oversight Group was established to support sustainable employment in the tourism and hospitality sector in order to attract and retain new and existing talent within the tourism and hospitality industry. The Department and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science are both participants in this group which brings...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (4 Mar 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: In 2017 my Department operated a Digitisation Scheme for National Cultural Institutions (NCIs). and other collections of national significance. This provided funding for 14 projects across 7 NCIs and 3 other cultural organisations. The National Gallery of Ireland put forward 3 proposals including one that included the purchase of digital x-ray equipment. Approval to provide funding for these...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Online Safety (4 Mar 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 423 and 424 together. Article 13(2) of the revised Audiovisual Media Services Directive ('AVMSD') provides that Member States may require media service providers under their jurisdiction to make a financial contribution to the production of European works. To exercise this option under the AVMSD, section 159E of the Broadcasting Act 2009 (as amended)...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Office of Public Works (4 Mar 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: My Department's role in relation to tourism lies primarily in the area of national tourism policy and implementation of that policy is a matter for the tourism agencies, Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland. The matter raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for Fáilte Ireland. Accordingly, I have referred this question to that agency for direct response to the Deputy....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: There is the arrogance. The Deputy's question is more important than theirs.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Opposition does not want to hear from Government backbenchers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Which he does not have.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: There are many people the Deputy owes one.

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...

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

Patrick O'Donovan: The estimated overall loss in value of €5.3m in respect of the Arts Council Business Transformation Programme was first notified to my Department at the end of June 2024 and this was then brought to the attention of the Secretary General and the then Minister. More generally, Chapter 7 of the Report on the Examination of The Arts Council Business Transformation Programme looks at...