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Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (22 Feb 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 Housing, Local Government and Heritage, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for Further and Higher...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Census of Population (22 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, together. The Central Statistics Office's preparations for Census 2022 are at an advanced stage. Recruitment for the three layers of field managers is complete and those staff have commenced their employment. The Central Statistics Office, CSO, is currently in the process of recruiting over 5,000 enumerators and they are expected to...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (22 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: The Central Statistics Office’s Structural Business Statistics (SBS) publishes annual statistics on enterprise characteristics including turnover. The latest SBS results show that there were 285,466 enterprises in the business economy in 2019. Of these, 244,510 enterprises had annual turnover less than €750,000. The following table shows the breakdown of these figures by sector...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (22 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: The Central Statistics Office’s Structural Business Statistics (SBS) publishes annual statistics on enterprise characteristics including employee numbers. The latest SBS results show that there were 285,466 enterprises in the business economy in 2019. Of these, 273,829 enterprises had less than 20 employees. It should be noted that a large portion of the business economy is made up of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 304 to 306, inclusive, together. The Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) is the primary vehicle for Government support for the development of sports and recreation facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports equipment throughout the country. Over 13,000 projects have now benefited from sports capital funding since 1998, bringing the total...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 308 to 313, inclusive, together. The Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) is the primary vehicle for Government support for the development of sports and recreation facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports equipment throughout the country. Over 13,000 projects have now benefited from sports capital funding since 1998, bringing the total...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: 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 equipment throughout the country. Any sports club can apply directly for funding up to a value of €150,000 for local projects. In cases where a club does not own a premises, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 317, 320 and 327 together. The Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF) was launched in 2018 to provide Exchequer support for larger sports facility projects, including swimming pools, with at least €100m being made available over the period to 2027. The first allocations under the LSSIF were announced in January 2020 and, thus far,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: The Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) is the primary vehicle for Government support for the development of sports and recreation facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports equipment throughout the country.  Over 13,000 projects have now benefited from sports capital funding since 1998, bringing the total allocations in that time to over...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Facilities (22 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: Dublin City Council's proposal for the development of Dalymount Park was among the successful projects to be awarded funding under the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF). A grant of €918,750 was awarded under Stream 1 of the LSSIF towards the cost of bringing the project to tender stage and a formal grant agreement has been signed by Dublin City Council and my...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: An Teanga Gaeilge (22 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: Tá cóip den taighde atá luaite ag an Teachta faighte agam féin agus ag mo chuid oifigigh ó Chonradh na Gaeilge.  Cuirim fáilte roimh an taighde a léiríonn go bhfuil an pobal i gcoitinne, fiú iad siúd nach bhfuil an Ghaeilge ar a dtoil acu, báúil don teanga. Dár ndóigh, is ag teacht le polasaí an Rialtais seo...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Strategies (17 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: Initial preparatory planning work has been undertaken by my Department in this regard. It is intended to establish a working group in the near future to take forward the detailed work of preparing a national swimming strategy, with a view to its completion and publication this year.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (17 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: The Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) is the primary vehicle for Government support for the development of sports and recreation facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports equipment throughout the country.  Over 13,000 projects have now benefited from sports capital funding since 1998, bringing the total allocations in that time to over...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (17 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: The club to which the Deputy refers was provisionally allocated a grant under the 2017 Sports Capital Programme (SCP) for the development of an artificial playing surface. In accordance with the terms and conditions of the SCP, certain legal requirements must be met in order to protect the public investment in the facility. In this regard my Department has recently been in contact with...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (17 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: The club to which the Deputy refers, was provisionally allocated a grant under the 2018 Sports Capital Programme (SCP) for security fencing and the development of a natural playing surface. In accordance with the terms and conditions of the SCP, due to the value of the grants received by the club in the past, it is necessary to execute a Deed of Covenant and Charge in order to protect...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (17 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 207 and 209 together. The Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) is the primary vehicle for Government support for the development of sports and recreation facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports equipment throughout the country. Over 13,000 projects have now benefited from sports capital funding since 1998, bringing the total...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (17 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: The Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP) is the primary vehicle for Government support for the development of sports and recreation facilities and the purchase of non-personal sports equipment throughout the country.  Over 13,000 projects have now benefited from sports capital funding since 1998, bringing the total allocations in that time to over...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Íocaíochtaí Deontas (17 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: Is ar an mbunús agus ar an tnúthán go mbeidh na coláistí Gaeilge athoscailte in mbliana atá an Roinn ag feidhmiú agus, dá réir, gur tríd an gcúnamh leanúnach a chuirtear ar fáil faoi Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge a bheidh an Roinn ag teacht i gcabhair ar an earnáil go príomha mar a bhaineann...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: I welcome this opportunity to hear Deputies' views on the recently published report of the Commission on the Defence Forces. Since my appointment as Minister of State at the Department of Defence, I have had the opportunity to see the work that is undertaken by the Defence Forces, the Department of Defence and Civil Defence throughout the country and would like to put on record my...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge (16 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: Tháinig deireadh le Scéim Pobal Gaeilge ag deireadh 2021. Baineann an tsuim €47,000 atá luaite ag an Teachta le uasmhéid an deontais atá ar fáil faoi Scéim Forbartha Líonraí Gaeilge (SFLG) de chuid Fhoras na Gaeilge – scéim nua atá in áit ó thús 2022.   Cuireadh moltaí Fhoras na Gaeilge maidir...