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

Catherine Martin: The Irish women's football team's qualification for the 2023 World Cup Finals is a fantastic achievement and I am sure the whole country will be supporting the team when they compete in the tournament next summer. The Department is open to engaging with the FAI with the possibility of hosting a reception for the team and this could be considered in advance of their departure for Australia...

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

Catherine Martin: The Government’s ten year Audiovisual Action Plan published in 2018 sets the strategic direction for the growth of the Irish audiovisual industry. Its objective is to establish Ireland as a global hub for the production of film, TV drama and animation. Ireland competes internationally to attract internationally mobile film, TV and animation productions that brings valuable investment...

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

Catherine Martin: The delivery of the basic income for the arts pilot scheme is a key priority for me as Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. I was delighted to be in a position to deliver on this initiative which was the number one recommendation from the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce which I established in 2020 to examine how best to support the arts in recovering from the...

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

Catherine Martin: The Live Performance Restart Grant Scheme (LPRGS) was launched in March to provide a new grant for businesses engaged in staging live events in the arts and culture live performance sector. This scheme has supported the live entertainment sector by providing business re-start grants to de-risk the planning of events and to assist with the costs of reopening following the lifting of COVID-19...

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

Catherine Martin: As Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, along with having responsibility for policy within the Arts, I allocate funding to the Arts Council that has primary responsibility for the development of the arts in Ireland under the Arts Act 2003. With regards to the Deputy's specific queries in relation to Culture Night 2022, I have referred this question to the Arts...

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

Catherine Martin: A capital grant of up to €2 million has been awarded to Mayo County Council towards the cost of this project, of which €1,568,292 has been drawn down to date. The long-term operational costs of the completed facility are matter for Mayo County Council.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: Tá mé sásta a bheith ag labhairt leis na comhaltaí inniu. Go dtí seo, má bhí rialachán ar bith i gceist, bhí sé déanta ag na comhlachtaí nó na meáin shóisialta iad féin. Ar bhealach tá sé thar am go ndéanfaimid a leithéid. The members all know how important this Bill is in a range of ways....

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: Gabhaim buíochas leis na Teachtaí Ó Snodaigh, Munster agus Mythen as a gcuid leasuithe. As the Deputy said, amendment No. 1 seeks to change all references to the commission in the Bill to coimisiún and amendment No. 5 seeks to change all references in the Bill from commissioner to coimisinéir. As Deputies will be aware, section 9D(1) of the Official Languages Act...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, line 32, to delete “section 139ZZ(1)” and substitute “section 139ZZH(1)”. The purpose of this group of amendments is to make provision in the Bill for an individual complaints mechanism, as recommended by the online safety expert group in its comprehensive report. When I established the expert group earlier this year I made...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 9, line 34, to delete “section 139ZZ(2)” and substitute “section 139ZZH(2)”.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 6: In page 10, line 30, to delete “definition” where it firstly occurs and substitute “definitions”. These are purely technical amendments inserting a definition of the e-commerce directive into section 2 of the 2009 Act, which concerns definitions. This is being proposed to avoid repeating the title of the directive where it is...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 7: In page 10, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “ ‘E-Commerce Directive’ means Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market;”.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: I thank Deputies Ó Snodaigh, Munster and Mythen for their amendment, which seeks to add the word “impacts” to the phrase “the nature and characteristics of published material” within the definition of media literacy in the Bill so that it reads as “the nature, characteristics and impacts of published material.” While I am sympathetic to the...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 9: In page 16, line 19, to delete “meaning given by” and substitute “same meaning as in”.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 10: In page 16, lines 19 to 22, to delete all words from and including “Directive” in line 19 down to and including “Market” in line 22 and substitute “the E-Commerce Directive”.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 11: In page 16, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “Meaning of “under the jurisdiction of the State”: providers of other services that may be relevant online services 6. The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 2B: “2C. (1) For the purposes of this Act, the provider of an...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 12: In page 16, line 32, to delete “section 2B” and substitute “section 2C”.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 13: In page 16, line 33, to delete “2C.” and substitute “2D.”.