Results 181-200 of 408 for speaker:Joanna Byrne
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: There were failures. That is a valid point. The Department failed, yet it seems, as a result of everything that is going on - such as the report that is in front of us today and the engagement that took place at the Committee of Public Accounts last week - that the Arts Council is being made a scapegoat. In particular, Ms. Kennelly has been thrown under the bus by the Minister by not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: Mr. Ó Coigligh was not Accounting Officer at the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: That is fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: Very quickly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: Fantastic. I have a query regarding to something in the annual report regarding rent costs the Arts Council spends. Can the witnesses highlight where and why it is paying rent and who the landlords are?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: Has the Arts Council engaged with the OPW on perhaps utilising some of its properties?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: To no avail.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: Is the rent comparable to what is paid by other non-semi-State applicants in the area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: My question is for Ms McGrath. The issue was touched on by a colleague earlier and was raised at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts last week. It relates to the conflict of interest with the National Concert Hall. Ms McGrath was emphatic that there is no conflict of interest. She mentioned a project earlier from which she exempted herself. It seems that the Arts Council funds...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (10 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: 579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to engage the SEAI Pathfinder Programme with a school in Drogheda (details supplied) to achieve their retrofit and energy goals, and replace inadequate heating and insulation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29769/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (10 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: 715. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans his Department have to effectively promote and successfully implement copper switch off; whether his Department has, or is working on, an implementation plan for same; when this roadmap plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30040/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (10 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: 1210. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be provided in Budget 2026 to deliver a community neurorehabilitation team for the midlands and north east in line with the Programme for Government commitment to complete the roll out of community neurorehabilitation teams across the country. [30307/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (10 Jun 2025)
Joanna Byrne: 1162. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be provided in this year’s Budget to deliver a community neurorehabilitation team for the Midlands and North East in line with the Programme for Government commitment to complete the rollout of community neurorehabilitation teams across the country; and if she will make a statement on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: I welcome the witnesses. I have some questions for the Arts Council about the €5.2 million that was written off for an IT system deemed not to be fit for purpose and which was eventually discontinued. When this project was first planned six years ago, it was estimated it would cost roughly €3 million and take two and a half years to complete. Ms Kennelly said that coming up...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: That might have led to the council not being able to address some of the substandard work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: Does the senior expert IT expert the council brought in involve an additional cost or is it included in the cost-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: Ms Kennelly mentioned that the Arts Council is seeking legal redress against two of the contractors. Did it withhold any payments to those contractors at the time or were they paid for all the work?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: They still have not been paid.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Joanna Byrne: Ms Kennelly also mentioned that the council engaged with the Office of Government Procurement prior to this project. Has there been further engagement with the Office of Government Procurement regarding how we move forward on this?