Results 3,481-3,500 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cultural Property Inventory (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: The Minister and I disagree on that point. My question was whether the Government had the right of first refusal on the Yeats collection. It should be borne in mind that W.B. Yeats and his son Michael were distinguished Members of the Oireachtas. Yeats also did a great deal of work and spent a great deal of time in the National Library. Is it true that the State had first refusal on what...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cultural Property Inventory (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: The Government is about to spend €150,000 on polling public opinion on a strategic communications unit.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cultural Property Inventory (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: Arts and culture are about communication. I suggest the €150,000 would have been much better utilised to secure a priceless part of our history.
- Other Questions: Cultural Policy (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: 41. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the Arts Council and the Irish Film Board in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40519/17]
- Other Questions: Cultural Policy (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: What are the Minister's plans for the Arts Council and the Irish Film Board for 2018 and afterwards?
- Other Questions: Cultural Policy (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: The Minister has stressed her commitment to the development of the arts in Ireland. I am at a slight loss at the Minister's references to Creative Ireland. Is Creative Ireland now effectively an oversight body that picks up all the elements of the arts in Ireland? Separately, what is the strategy relating to the Arts Council, with which huge numbers of living, working artists have a...
- Other Questions: Cultural Policy (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: Given that the Minister acknowledges the importance of the Arts Council and the Irish Film Board, what demands has she put forward for 2018 to broaden funding to the sector? Many artists struggle financially. Much of their fame arises after they have died and, as the Minister mentioned earlier, their estates can be very valuable. However, that does not help many artists necessarily in...
- Priority Questions: Cultural Property Inventory (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: The Minister should be ashamed, actually.
- Other Questions: Departmental Staff Recruitment (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: 39. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how she plans to fill the vacancy created by the departure of the communications chief of Creative Ireland; the timetable for that person's replacement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40518/17]
- Other Questions: Departmental Staff Recruitment (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: The Minister has spoken about the importance of Creative Ireland. I understand its leader was Mr. John Concannon. Is that correct?
- Other Questions: Departmental Staff Recruitment (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: The Minister emphasised that this person was recruited by the Department in respect of a very important job relating to the five-year Creative Ireland programme. When was she approached with the news that the person was going to leave the Department and be transferred to another post? Was a written request submitted to her? The then Taoiseach announced the appointment of this person. Can...
- Other Questions: Departmental Staff Recruitment (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: Did he tell the Minister what it was?
- Other Questions: Departmental Staff Recruitment (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: Is the Minister saying there was a transfer and appointment to the Department of the Taoiseach in respect of which she received no correspondence and in the context of which there was no public appointments process? Is she stating that there was no communication between the Secretary General of the Minister's Department and the Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach in the...
- Other Questions: Departmental Staff Recruitment (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: Then tell us what happened.
- Other Questions: Departmental Staff Recruitment (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: Where is the paperwork?
- Other Questions: Departmental Staff Recruitment (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: Sure.
- Other Questions: Departmental Staff Recruitment (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: They obey the public appointments structures, which is what I am asking the Minister about.
- Priority Questions: Cultural Property Inventory (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: 38. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action she has taken to secure a collection (details supplied) and prevent some or all of it going abroad; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40764/17]
- Priority Questions: Cultural Property Inventory (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: What has the Minister done to preserve this important collection for the Irish people?
- Priority Questions: Cultural Property Inventory (27 Sep 2017)
Joan Burton: Does the Minister not feel regret and embarrassment at the fact that a key part of Ireland's literary, artistic and cultural history has been sold off to the highest bidder through a London auction room? I recognise the enormous generosity of the Yeats family to Ireland and especially to the National Library of Ireland next door, where Yeats spent a lot of his time. Yeats spoke of the...