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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 549. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason minimum business costs are required of applicants for the music and entertainment business assistance scheme despite not being a requirement for the new event sector Covid support scheme, small business assistance scheme for Covid-19 or the business continuity schemes from Fáilte Ireland. [40701/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 550. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a step-by-step online video guide or explanatory webinar was not provided to assist in explaining the music and entertainment business assistance scheme application form to potential applicants, in particular the more technical questions in the form. [40702/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 551. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the music and entertainment business assistance scheme includes a commitment to publishing the names of successful grantees, despite this not being a requirement in other schemes such as the event sector Covid support scheme which only states names may be published.; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 552. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason grant payments for the music and entertainment business assistance scheme have not yet been issued, despite applications having opened over six weeks ago on 9 June 2021. [40704/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 553. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the wait time between applying and approval for the music and entertainment business assistance scheme is inconsistent; if her attention has been drawn to some applicants being approved within days of applying while others who had applied before them are left waiting for weeks for a decision; and the reason for the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 554. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the process an application for the music and entertainment business assistance scheme goes through between the submission of the application to approval or refusal of the application; if applications are processed chronologically in the order in which they are submitted in a first-come-first-served manner; if there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 555. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applications made by the original deadline of 7 July 2021, the first extended deadline of 21 July 2021 and in total to date for the music and entertainment business assistance scheme; and the number of applications her Department had anticipated or estimated when it announced the €14 million allocation for...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 556. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason her Department understands to be the cause of the music and entertainment business assistance scheme receiving such a low uptake; the additional measures that were undertaken to address these reasons and increase awareness and uptake when the deadline was extended to 21 July 2021 and then again to 3 August 2021; the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 557. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department is of the view that the unnecessary extra criteria not applicable to other Covid-19 supports for businesses, such as the minimum business costs and publishing of grantee names, that the application not being sufficiently simple or properly explained, or that a lack of awareness about the grant and the way it...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 558. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the music and entertainment business assistance scheme was created under de minimis aid regulations as opposed to the European Union’s Temporary Framework for State Aid under which other schemes, including the small business assistance scheme for Covid-19, live performance support scheme and business continuity...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 559. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a lower threshold for turnover, such as €15,000, was not used for the music and entertainment business assistance scheme, especially given the sector being known to have a below average income and some of the lowest paid workers in precarious employment without minimum wage conditions to rely on; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 560. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to continue to extend and if a commitment will be given to extending the deadline for application to the music and entertainment business assistance scheme until such time as the allocated funding is delivered to those for whom it was intended. [40712/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 561. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she had made or will make representations to the Minister for Social Protection to alert the Department to the potential damage that the recategorisation of pandemic unemployment payment recipients in the music and entertainment sectors as jobseeker's payments and the cutting of their supports will have on the sector; if she...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 562. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the potential for workers in the music and entertainment sector who receive a few days' work through the live performance support scheme being expected or required to give up their only guaranteed stable support of the pandemic unemployment payment, if the funds they receive through the live performance support scheme results...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Orchestras (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 563. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the heads of the proposed Bill to transfer ownership of the National Symphony Orchestra from RTÉ to the National Concert Hall have been agreed; when these will be published; and the timeframe in which the Bill is expected to undergo pre-legislative scrutiny and be brought forward to the Houses of the Oireachtas. [40722/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Communications (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 564. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a ministerial brief was produced to provide a high-level introduction to her Department and a selection of the issues that can be expected to require ministerial attention, providing information on an overview of the Department, agencies under the Department, issues and engagements, departmental priorities, sectoral issues...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Coimisiún Logainmneacha (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 565. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dáta a rinneadh an barántas faoinar bunaíodh an Coimisiún Logainmneacha a chúlghairm, an soláthróidh sí cóip den ordú cúlghairme seo, agus an bhfoilseoidh sí an t-ordú seo don phobal. [40724/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 566. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad a caitheadh ar dheontais do choláistí cónaithe agus do bhrúnna a bhaineann le coláistí samhraidh Gaeltachta gach bliain le cúig bliana anuas, agus go ndéanfaidh sí idirdhealú idir an maoiniú seo agus an maoiniú a cuireadh ar fáil do mhná...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 567. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén fo-theideal sna meastacháin faoina dtagann an maoiniú a cuireadh ar fáil le haghaidh scoláireachtaí Gaeltachta do dhaltaí i scoileanna DEIS, faoina dtagann an maoiniú a cuireadh ar fáil le haghaidh Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge, faoina dtagann deontais a cuireadh ar...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (27 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 568. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad é méid an chaiteachais a leithroinneadh chun ionaid pobail Gaeilge agus Cultúrlanna a bhunú agus a reáchtáil sa stát, cé mhéad ionad atá bunaithe agus atá le bunú, cé mhéad Cultúrlann atá bunaithe agus atá le bunú, agus an...