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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Despite the figure being less than 1% of the Arts Council budget in that period, it is still a substantial amount of €6.7 million. Did any of the senior team of the Arts Council or of the Department in 2017, 2018 or 2019 look at or recommend the cheaper off-the-shelf model before the contracts were signed? That is key to much of this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I know there were people in the Arts Council and in the area suggesting an alternative. Was the business case made for an off-the-shelf model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Who recommended the business case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is the director who also signed the business case to move to Westland Row. That collapsed at a cost to the Arts Council as well in that period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There were costs involved in it. It was the same period. For a director of the Arts Council, is it the norm for a period to be extended? Is it for five years or two years? What is the norm?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: When will the Department make a decision on the proposal for an off-the-shelf thing, given Mr. Anyanwu has said there are exposures there and action needs to be taken?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: He could decide not to sanction it, the Arts Council would not function properly because of the clunky system and Mr. Anyanwu would have to cobble things together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We had the same case in RTÉ. The HR system it is planning to buy is out of date already. That seems to be the way the Departments are working.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have a quick question. The answer can be "Yes" or "No". Was the dropping of "Arts" from the title of the Department the Minister's revenge on the Arts Council or was it because, as the media has said, he did not want the Department to have an acronym like "SCAM" or "SMACC"?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the list of each instance in which the Government granted approval as required under Article 40.2.2 of the Constitution to a citizen to accept a title of nobility or honour over the past ten years, specifying the name of the citizen, the name of the title, the bestower of the title, and the date of the meeting of Government at which...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Miscarriages of Justice (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister received this correspondence almost two years ago, so it is taking a long time to receive attention. The matter itself should be receiving attention even though it is 50 years on. There is no doubting the innocence of the men; that is not why we are seeking an inquiry. The reason is the fact that the State had a system where there were rogue gardaí and non-rogue...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Miscarriages of Justice (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know how much the Minister of State knows, or even remembers, about what occurred in 1976 and thereafter following the robbery by the IRA of €150,000 from a train at Sallins, County Kildare. It was an audacious robbery at the time that hit all the headlines. What did not really hit the headlines afterwards was the Garda Síochána arrest, torture and beating of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Glaoim ar an Teachta Byrne.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Táimid ag rith as am agus mar sin ligfidh mé don Teachta Daly ceist uimh. 114 a chur agus freagra a fháil air.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Michael Cahill - To discuss if the N70 national secondary Ring of Kerry road can be brought up to an acceptable standard. Deputy Malcolm Byrne - To discuss the planned extension of a secondary school in Carnew, County Wicklow,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Deputy O'Gorman will have his chance to speak in a minute.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It must be heartbreaking for those on the housing waiting lists to daily pass boarded up homes or the many derelict, abandoned or underutilised private homes on their way to bringing their kids to school, day in, day out and year in, year out. It is scandalous in a housing crisis - an emergency - that all homes connected to sewers, water and electricity do not have families in them. The...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá an oiread sin gnéithe den cheist tithíochta seo nach féidir liom iad ar fad a chlúdach san am atá agam. Déanfaidh mé déileáil le gné amháin ach cosúil le mo chomhghleacaí tá mé ag iarraidh ar dhaoine teacht le chéile anseo Dé Máirt seo chugainn ar a 6 a chlog mar chuid den Raise the Roof...

Taxes Consolidation (Rights of Performers and Film Workers) (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 to ensure the certificate required for Section 481 tax relief is only issued to qualifying companies which afford equal terms to Irish performers, comply with copyright legislation, and do not engage in the practice of so-called 'buy-out' contracts. Yesterday, we celebrated Lá...

Taxes Consolidation (Rights of Performers and Film Workers) (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (10 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."