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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the weekly actual and target average turnaround times for South African visa applicants, broken down by category of visa, for the past three months, in tabular form. [39817/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 273. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the unit within her Department that is responsible for alcohol policy outside of the enforcement of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (16 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 282. To ask the Minister for Health in view of recent statements from the Tánaiste on pausing the implementation of alcohol labelling, when alcohol labelling will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40034/25]

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I welcome the establishment of this commission of investigation. While I have hope for it I am concerned that while the Commission of Investigation Act 2004 does allow for human rights compliance in the establishment of tribunals, inquiries and commissions of investigation, unfortunately in the two decades since the levels of compliance make a patchwork quilt when it comes to domestic and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: A huge number of residents of Dundrum and nearby locations contacted me recently. They are worried about privacy, noise and disruption and they are worried about drones. After several trials around Dublin and complaints from residents going unaddressed by this Government, a new drone depot is proposed for Dundrum. Let me be clear: I do not blame a company that, in the absence of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: It is not addressing privacy.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: We need to regulate them.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Meanwhile, privacy and noise-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: GAA Palestine insists all of the documentation was in order and yet they were denied visas. It has since been dismissed by the Department of Justice.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Any solution through the Department of Justice appeal process leaves them too late. The €40,000 they paid for flights will be gone because they had to pay beforehand. We need to discuss this, and the broader issue of visas from Palestine, today.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I apologise for having had to pop out. I have just a few questions. The first is about sport. The community sport facilities fund is seeing an increase of roughly 50%, which is really welcome. I see that the target reach of the fund in terms of payments made and, by extension, clubs and initiatives supported has increased by only 14%. Can the Minister of State outline the rationale for...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Moving on to broadcasting, one figure jumped out at me and I am sure there is an easy enough explanation for it. It was under financial and human resources inputs, C7, Coimisiún na Meán. The funding seems to have decreased from €5 million to €150,000. Is that accounted for elsewhere or is there a decrease or was it to do with the setup costs?

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Okay, so it was just that first year for setup and now it has its own income. Perfect. I thank the Minister for that. Do the targets for the numbers of hours of Irish-language programming per day encapsulate RTÉ and TG4 together? Do they also bring together all TV programming, public and private? As a follow-on question, would the Minister consider breaking up those targets...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Please. That would be great because they are just slightly different in that they have that different objective of Irish-language support, so it would be helpful to see Irish-language broadcasting not just in one bucket but rather through the different channels providing it. On arts and culture and the basic income for the arts scheme, this is just a small thing, but the output targets...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Goodness.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Exactly.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Yes, they do an incredible job. That money goes straight into the economy and straight into those communities. It would be great to see that extended and replicated. Sometimes, perhaps, TG4 and its success have been somewhat overshadowed by other broadcasters in these discussions. It is important to make sure they are kept prominent and front and centre.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Exactly, yes.