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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Events (5 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: While Major Sports Events are of benefit to participant teams and athletes they also have the potential to drive participation in sport more generally, contribute to trade, tourism, community engagement and economic growth. Such events can also increase national wellbeing and affect how we are viewed internationally. Ireland has consistently demonstrated ambition in terms of attracting...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (5 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: Funding for rugby is primarily allocated by Sport Ireland through through its Field Sport Programme. Under this programme, €2.25 million is provided annually to the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) with the broad aim of creating more opportunities for young boys and girls to participate in field sports. The field sport programme is based on an ethos of developing the grassroots of the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (5 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: Mar is eol don Teachta, agus ceisteanna faoin ábhar seo á bhfreagairt roimhe seo le gairid, tá sé curtha in iúl ag Údarás na Gaeltachta go bhfuil cinneadh déanta acu taighde breise a dhéanamh ar riachtanais na bhfostaithe sna cliantchomhlachtaí ó thaobh cothú na Gaeilge de.  Beidh sonraí an taighde sin á...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Teanga (5 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: Ós rud é go bhfuiltear ag súil leis go mbeidh córas na gcoláistí faoi lán seoil an samhradh seo, is é tosaíocht mo Roinne faoi láthair, mar a bhaineann sé le córas na gcoláistí Gaeilge, cúram a dhéanamh de phróiseáil iarratas ar aitheantas ó na coláistí agus éilimh...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (5 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: Under the language planning process as set out under the Gaeltacht Act, 2012, Údarás na Gaeltachta is charged with facilitating the implementation of the process in Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas and Gaeltacht Service Towns located within the Gaeltacht, while Foras na Gaeilge has similar responsibility for the implementation of the process outside the Gaeltacht insofar as it...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Teanga (5 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: Mar is eol don Teachta mar a bhaineann sé le ceantair Ghaeltachta go sonrach, chuirtí deontas faoi Scéim Labhairt na Gaeilge, arbh fhiú suas le €260 in aghaidh na bliana é ar fáil do theaghlaigh cháilithe Ghaeltachta a bhí in ann a léiriú don Roinn gurbh í an Ghaeilge príomh-theanga labhartha bhunadh an tí acu. Mar...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (5 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: The process to be conducted under Section 18B of the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021 to appoint members to the Irish Language Services Advisory Committee is ongoing. The process established by the Public Appointments Service at the request of my Department to recruit members to the Committee to represent Irish-speaking communities from both within and outside of the Gaeltacht is at...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Organisations (5 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: Addressing women’s participation at all levels in sport is an important element of the National Sports Policy. That includes women in leadership positions such as board members of National Governing Bodies (NGBs). I want to acknowledge the significant efforts that sporting bodies are now making around gender diversity on their boards. It is evident, however, that more work needs to...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Defibrillators Provision (5 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: The procurement of defibrillators is a matter for each community group in the first instance. However, the State provides a number of supports for their purchase and training for their use. The Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) is the primary vehicle for Government support for the development of sports and physical recreation facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports...

Safe Deposit Boxes and related Deposits Bill 2022: First Stage (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: No.

Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Referral to Joint Committee (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022, a copy of which has been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 21st April, 2022, be referred to the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, in accordance with Standing Order 95(5), which,...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 30th July, 2020, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Social Protection, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade...

Local Government and Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Carrigaline Rent Pressure Zone) Bill 2022: First Stage (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: No.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I thank Senators Malcolm Byrne, Cassells, Carrigy and Higgins for speaking to this amendment. I want to relay the apologies of the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Catherine Martin, who has had a bereavement in her family and cannot be here this evening. Section 19 of the Broadcasting Act 2009, as inserted by section 7 of the Bill, provides that an...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I thank all of the Senators for what they have said, as well as for their bona fides. I hear what they have said. There was significant pre-legislative scrutiny on the Bill. This particularly impacts on young people and children. The amendments that the Senators have sought to progress is to ensure the centrality of their voice in how policy is iterated and how it is implemented. In the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: No, I have made my point.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I understand the intention of the Senator's amendment. It rests on the question of whether the phrase "shall have regard to" should be interpreted as requiring the commission to follow whatever advice is given unless there is a compelling case not to. The legal advice that the Minister has received regarding this phraseology is that, where a public body shall have regard to a thing, it may...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I thank Senator Higgins. I understand the purpose of amendment No. 60 is to ensure there is sufficient distinction between the levy under the new section 21 of the Broadcasting Act 2009, as inserted by section 7 of the Bill, which will be used to meet the expenses of the commission incurred in the course of discharging its regulatory functions set out in the Bill in the Broadcasting Act...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: I thank Senator Higgins. I will say again that this has been reviewed by the Office of the Attorney General and our legal advice is there is sufficient distinction as currently drafted. The levy to fund the expenses of an coimisiún and a levy to fund the content are in two completely different sections of the Bill. The levy to fund the expenses is in section 21 and the levy to fund...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Jack Chambers: As I said, they are in two completely different sections. It has been fully reviewed. The legal advice and legal interpretation of the sections as drafted is that there is sufficient distinction presently and there is not a requirement to insert the amendments the Senator has proposed.