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Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I will make a brief comment on amendment No. 304. I take on board what the Minister has said. This amendment was proposed by Conradh na Gaeilge to allow the commission a role in establishing a grant scheme for the purpose of supporting and promoting good quality journalistic practices and standards around community, specifically in respect of the Irish language. In considering this...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 306: In page 129, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “Irish Cultural Works 159AA. (1) For the purposes of this section, ‘Irish cultural works’ are defined as works that satisfy the following criteria: (a) works of music that satisfy two of the following criteria: (i) the music or lyrics are composed or written by a resident of...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 307: In page 129, line 40, after “cent” to insert the following: “, or in which the share of works in the Irish language, from 31 December 2030, is less than 5 per cent, and from 31 December 2035, is less than 10 per cent”. These amendments seek to replicate what is done in other member states, using powers given under the AVMSD. It is...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I will withdraw and resubmit.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 315: In page 135, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “Obligation for Investment 159HA.(1) The Commission, following consultation with audiovisual media service providers, audiovisual and screen production companies established in Ireland, workers and businesses engaged in audiovisual production, Screen Ireland, RTÉ, Teilifís na...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I have one supplementary question on that issue. In light of the content of the Minister’s statement towards the end, has she reviewed the agreement that France made with the providers?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: My initial reaction to that would be that we would not be having the conversation about how low Irish output production is if levies such as that worked. This seems to be something that is quite innovative and new. If it can work in that specific regard in relation to cultural output in French, it is something we should be looking to mirror - perhaps not replicate in its entirety, but...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: Without some significant change in direction, I would be concerned this is a conversation we will be having again in another 15 or 20 years, where Irish output still remains very low in comparison with our EU neighbours.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: That is why I asked whether the Minister had looked at the French model and what it had done.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 320: In page 7, line 13, after “services;” to insert the following: “to increase the visibility and use of Irish as a spoken language in media and public life 46 and ensure a diversity of content for the Irish-speaking community;”. We will withdraw and resubmit.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 136. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals for the sanction of those found in breach of unfair trading practices. [53202/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: National Security Committee (25 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 341. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the Fuzhou overseas police service station which has opened on Capel Street Dublin, as part of the overseas 110 initiative by the Chinese government to open virtual police outposts around the world; if this virtual police station was registered with the Irish authorities; if any Chinese national living...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: National Security Committee (25 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 342. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of diplomatic relations between Ireland and Ethiopia since the Prime Minister’s national security adviser (details supplied) described the relationship between the two countries as at its nadir; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52927/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the qualifying criteria for the fuel allowance in cases in which a person who is in receipt of a qualifying payment will not get fuel allowance if their spouse or partner is in receipt of a social welfare payment that is not one of the qualifying payments; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the application for an exceptional needs payment by a person (details supplied) who is appealing the decision to refuse their application for assistance to cover the fuel costs they are incurring travelling to Beaumont and St. Luke’s Hospitals for treatment. [53251/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 657. To ask the Minister for Health the services and or supports that are available to women in hospital following a miscarriage, in relation to pregnancy loss and stillbirth per CHO area; and the referral pathways upon discharge in tabular form. [53249/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Crisis (25 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 748. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagement that he and his Department have had with an organisation (details supplied) regarding winter finishing and the impact that the rise in feeding costs will have; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52928/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Food Crisis: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for giving so freely of their time. There is no easy way of saying this, but I felt physically sick when I read the opening statement and saw that one death every 48 seconds is down to one every 36 seconds. Naively, I had hoped, against all the evidence that it would hold somewhere in and around where it had been and that the increase in the number of deaths would not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Global Food Crisis: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I have a very brief question. I would like to go back to the loss and damage aspect Mr. Byrne was speaking about there. I ask him to please correct me if I am wrong but my understanding is that the EU is not actually supportive of establishing a new facility under the UNFCCC to respond to loss and damage. Instead, it favours the scaling up and strengthening of existing facilities or...