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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 392. To ask the Minister for Health if persons providing home-help employed by the HSE or by private companies will receive the €1,000 bonus being considered for healthcare workers; if not, the reason for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19015/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance the respective costs to the State of applying a reduced VAT rate of 13.5% or of 9% to the supply of services by writers, composers and performing artists or of the royalties due to them under section 9 of Annex III. [18882/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 55. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an exemption was granted to her Department in the case of the live performance restart grant scheme from the requirement under circular 13/2014 that allows these grants to be issued without expenditure being vouched and without the need to return unvouched funding to the Exchequer. [18881/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 61. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if live performance restart grant scheme grants will be paid on a mature liability basis. [18875/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 62. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if recipients of the live performance restart grant scheme will be expected to outline the way in which they will spend the funding prior to being awarded same. [18876/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 63. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the evidence that will be required of applicants for the live performance restart grant scheme in order to be successful. [18877/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 64. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason that no conditions have been attached to the live performance restart grant scheme to ensure this funding is used to stage live performances and trickles down to reach the pockets of musicians and performers themselves. [18878/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 65. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures that she is taking to ensure that live performance restart grant scheme recipients do not use their grant funding to cover expenditure in areas of their business unrelated to live performance, such as pub activities. [18879/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 66. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there will be no process to ensure that expenditure using live performance restart grant scheme funding is vouched for and that unvouched funding is returned to the Exchequer; the way that this is possible given circular 13/2014 of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform which applies to the scheme. [18880/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 60. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of music entertainment business assistance scheme applications that have been approved; the number that have been paid to date; and the date by which all payments should be made. [18874/22]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I acknowledge in the first instance the recognition that has been given by the Minister in his amendments. I welcome the news that he will look again at further amendments. That is good news. One of the reasons I submitted these amendments along with Deputy Conway-Walsh was to try to get a debate around the additional - it should not be a burden - responsibility on the HEA. Without sight...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The section into which this is proposed to be inserted is the one that deals with the functions of An tÚdarás um Ard-Oideachas. It sets out in section 9 the functions of An tÚdarás in planning higher education provision and research and it lists a number of functions. They are not as explicit as we would like in its function relating to the Irish language. That is why...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is it part of this group?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome the Minister’s proposal to engage on this. I am not sure where is the best place to insert the amendment, whether it is in section 34 or in this section and I will reflect on that. It is important that this new aspect be covered. As the Minister said, the Bill has been in gestation for quite a long time, as had the Official Languages Act (Amendment) 2021, but it managed to...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 23: In page 16, line 18, after “interests” to insert “, Irish language and Gaeltacht interests”.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 41: In page 20, to delete lines 4 to 6 and substitute the following: “(ii) matters connected to education, including Irish medium education, teaching and learning, research, organisational and financial governance, management, public administration, risk management or language planning.”. I note that the Minister in his amendment No. 42 tries to do...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I think I would qualify on that one.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have absolutely no problem with withdrawing amendment No. 41, given the progress that has been made in the context of amendment No. 42. As regards the other amendments, it is difficult in the context of putting a board together. It is about ensuring that it is captured. We all live in the hope that it will be captured in the way the Minister believes it will by virtue of the inclusion of...