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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)

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 298: In page 127, line 12, after “by” to insert “local sound broadcasters and”.

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

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 302: In page 127, line 16, after “require a” to insert “local sound broadcaster or”.

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

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 303: In page 127, line 25, after “of” to insert “local sound broadcasters and”.

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

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 305: In page 127, line 29, after “of” to insert “local or”.

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

Catherine Martin: We all strongly support measures to support the works of Irish artists and the creation of Irish art. Since I became Minister, annual funding for the Arts Council has risen from €100 million in 2020 to a record €130 million. This year, I launched the basic income for the arts pilot scheme, which will support 2,000 artists over three years. However, the proposed amendment...

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

Catherine Martin: Amendment No. 307 seeks to amend the requirement for a video-on-demand service to have a share of European works in its catalogue of not less than 30% to further require a minimum percentage of works in the Irish language, being 5% from 2031 and 10% from 2036. The requirement for a minimum share of 30% of European works is set out in Article 13(1) of the revised audiovisual media services...

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

Catherine Martin: I thank the Deputies for their amendments, which seek to amend the provisions of the Bill relating to the content production levy and schemes. As the committee will be aware, Article 13.2 of the AVMSD provides an explicit legal basis for member states to levy media service providers that are under their jurisdiction or that are not under their jurisdiction but are targeting audiences in...

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

Catherine Martin: The purpose of this amendment is to require coimisiún na meán to carry out research on the introduction of investment obligations on media service providers operating in the State. The amendment also provides that the Minister shall present draft legislation before the Houses of the Oireachtas outlining proposals for the introduction of investment obligations for audiovisual media...

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

Catherine Martin: No. We decided to go with the content production levy. We thought that was the most appropriate approach in the Irish context.

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

Catherine Martin: The difference as well is what has been done in France is with individual providers whereas what we are doing here is with the sector as a whole.

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

Catherine Martin: As I said, that is to do with individual, whereas we are dealing with the sector as a whole.

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

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 316: In page 140, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 46M(5) of Principal Act 67. Section 46M(5) of the Principal Act as inserted by section 8is amended— (a) by the substitution of “An Coimisiún Toghcháin” for “the Referendum Commission”, and (b) by the substitution of...

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

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 317: In page 142, line 38, to delete “section 139ZQ” and substitute “section 139ZY”.

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

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 318: In page 142, line 40, to delete “section 139ZQ(1)” and substitute “section 139ZY(1)”.

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

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 319: In page 144, after line 16, to insert the following: “Amendment of Electoral Reform Act 2022 78.Section 32(1) of the Electoral Reform Act 2022 is amended by the substitution of “Section 46M(2)(a)” for “Section 41(3)”.”.

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

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 321: In page 7, line 26, after “to” where it secondly occurs to insert “local sound broadcasters and”.

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

Catherine Martin: As I said, it was determined that the content production levy was the appropriate approach in the Irish context. As I said earlier, it is not possible under EU law to introduce an investment obligation based on a specific production location within Europe.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: Under the Irish Film Board Acts 1980-2018, Screen Ireland is a statutorily independent agency with a Board that is a body corporate. The functions of the Board are set out under Section 4 of the Act and the powers of the Board to make grants in respect of those functions are set out in Section 8. As Minister, I have no role in Screen Ireland's individual funding decisions. Regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: I am advised that there are 9 members of staff working in the Communications Unit of my Department. This Unit is responsible for internal and external communications for the Department, which includes media response and wider media relations, event organisation, social media, co-ordination of briefing material, media services, communications-related training, and internal communications...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Census of Population (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: Details of the 1926 Census have been published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in 10 volumes as follows: - Volume 1 - Population, area and valuation of each DED and each larger Unit of Area - Volume 2 - Occupations - Volume 3 - Religion and birthplaces - Volume 4 - Housing - Volume 5 - Ages, orphanhood and conjugal conditions - Volume 6 - Industrial status - Volume 7 - Industries -...