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- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: That is fine. I will move to programme B, dealing with arts and culture, which is my favourite of all. Will Ms Nash speak a little about the impact indicators that directly measure the impact of funding from the output indicators?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Who devised the programmes?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Will Ms Nash refresh my memory on the training schemes she mentioned? Did she mention three schemes?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Excellent. We have covered a lot of those topics and we would be more than happy to hear about them.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: It will further increase the demand for hotel rooms around the city. Turning to broadcasting, could we talk about the lack of output or impact indicators for the community media piece, such as expenditure on community broadcasting, the number of hours of community broadcasting per day and the reach of community media?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Obviously, the sound and vision fund was a huge help to them in sustaining their viability during the pandemic. It would be nice to see some feedback from that. I have not come to Mr. Healy yet. What is his area?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: I might not have a question for him. We did not do anything on sports yet. Who covers sports?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: I am afraid I am not a Gaelgóir, Mr. Ó Conaire. Could you give some details on the steps the Department is taking to meet the targets established from the output indicators?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Have we no analysis of that yet?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Will Mr. Ó Conaire elaborate on the large scale sport infrastructure fund? He said it was launched in 2018 just before Covid hit.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Most of these projects are not yet completed. They are under way.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Is the Department making any plans for the fact of inflation, which Mr. Ó Conaire alluded to? Projects that may have been set at a particular price will be hit by 30% increases or maybe more.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage will have looked at that in respect of some of the urban regeneration projects. Local authorities have stated they were granted €14 million, for example, but, in fact, it will now take €20 million to deliver a project. A scheme is now in place where the State meets 70% of that extra cost and local authorities will have to...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: On a different topic but still within the area of sport, will Mr. Ó Conaire talk a little about the detail of the breakdown of the number of international competitions from 2019 to 2021 in which Ireland participated and won medals?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: I will give Mr. Ó Conaire a break and come back to Ms Gleeson. Fáilte Ireland submitted written evidence to the committee in December 2021, which estimated there were 40,000 vacancies in the tourism industry. Could Ms Gleeson talk a little about whether those severe skills shortages were in the sector prior to the pandemic? If not, how can employment in the sector be returned to...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Does the Department see that as having been the biggest problem during Covid, namely, that we lost that skill set to other industries? Was there a crisis in skills shortages prior to the pandemic or has this arisen as a direct result of the pandemic?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Were people leaving the industry prior to the pandemic?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: I want to recap. A comprehensive summary of the plan is to get back into schools and colleges to encourage people. When the Restaurants Association of Ireland was before the committee it talked about having to go abroad to find staff to come and work in that industry and about the difficulty with visas and so on. Is that all part of the plan the Department is talking about?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: When Ms Gleeson mentions transition year work placements, does she mean transition year in school?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)
Niamh Smyth: Has the Department taken on the idea that has been given to us in the committee of going abroad to find the skill set and to encourage those people to come to Ireland to work?