Results 21-40 of 153 for speaker:Evanne Ní Chuilinn
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I have, but I just wonder what the breakdown is. How much of it is about money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I am sorry; it is this breakdown I have in front of me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I thought it was a different list. I apologise. That is my mistake.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: It refers to Powerpoint communications and covering issues in the budget, so there are about 17 items on the budget. Did Mr. Ó Coigligh feel like he was up to date and informed on the runaway train that was the money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: When the €5.3 million was written off by the Arts Council, which was a surprise to Mr. Ó Coigligh, did that ring alarm bells for him in terms of oversight and governance of bodies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Mr. Ó Coigligh told Senator Comyn what had changed with regard to ICT projects and oversight since this all happened. What are his views on State bodies needing to have that ICT capability? There was a suggestion from Ms Maura McGrath that maybe that needed to be addressed. What is Mr. Ó Coigligh's feeling on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Is it a challenge for all of those bodies under the Department's remit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Mr. Ó Coigligh said that he parked that. Did he mean that the off-the-shelf system was parked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I know. Does that mean the system to which Deputy Byrne referred, which failed in 2023, is still being used now by the Arts Council?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I do not know if that was clear a couple of weeks ago. I think we assumed the Arts Council got the off-the-shelf system up and running. I will not take too much longer. In respect of the Professor Niamh Brennan review of governance, is an interim report expected? Is it a case of waiting until the report is finished?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Do we have any idea how much it will cost or is it a case of however long it goes on-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Yes.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh Gníomhach. I understand agus níl an locht ort ná ar an Aire Stáit atá anseo inniu. I do want to say I am disappointed. I have raised this issue twice in the Seanad. It has been submitted a couple of times as a Commencement matter. It was finally chosen today. On behalf of the one-, two- and three-year-old children in Dublin...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. I will start with the IPU delegation because I want to follow up on some of the questions concerning the status of workers. To get an idea by way of background, do some people want to be contractors or would they rather be employees? What way is it working out? I ask because every organisation is different.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I understand. I want to quote a response that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, gave on 29 April to a parliamentary question on postmasters and the Karshan ruling. My question is really one for the Department. He said: I am advised by Revenue that the TDM relating to Sub-Postmasters & Social Welfare Branch Managers will be updated shortly to confirm that the tax treatment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I would appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: They are two State bodies. There is a lot of conversation in the two bodies around PRSI workers and contractors. On the additional €5 million, it sounds like there is a lot to do and a lot that needs to be done to keep the show on the road. The digitalisation of communications poses challenges for the postal network so is the extra €5 million enough for everything that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Did the witnesses say that 40% of post offices will close? Is that the figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Are they mostly rural or urban, or is it across the board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)
Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I am not sure how much time I have left.