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Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: An tAire Sláinte is asking this House for the power to make up restrictions and regulations, as he sees fit, for another three months. This is the tenth time since the emergency powers were first agreed to deal with the immediate challenges posed by the onset of the pandemic that we are being expected to renew the blank cheque and to suspend normal parliamentary oversight. That is as...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 122. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the meetings or consultations that took place between his Department and representatives of the live performance and nightlife sector, including workers and businesses, in the week prior to the announcements on 19 October of the plans to ease restrictions on the sector. [53306/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Code (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to review the policy regarding charging motor tax on vehicles used by a charity (details supplied) to exempt it from the tax. [52596/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will amend the Road Traffic Acts to allow for the vehicles of a charity (details supplied) to use bus lanes as is the case in many other jurisdictions while on route to hospitals. [52597/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 314. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 414 of 19 October 2021, if no assessment took place of the value for money of the cost of applications submitted prior to funding being awarded under the live performance support scheme in 2021. [52528/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 315. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that funding from her Department, through an organisation (details supplied) is being used to fund a festival celebrating partition that involves re-enactments of the sectarian B-Specials in Coleraine; her further views on whether the provision of funds by a body established under the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 317. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has engaged with the Minister for Social Protection to devise a scheme to immediately continue supporting artists and performance workers whose ability to work remains restricted or limited; if so, the reason no scheme has yet been designed as many artists were set to receive their last pandemic unemployment payment in...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 319. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a copy of the options paper submitted to her by the oversight group responsible for developing the pilot basic income for artists in addition to a copy of the presentation material provided by the various groups which have presented to the oversight group on the basic income pilot will be provided. [52526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 330. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the decision to require advanced booking of tickets to attend events or venues involving dancing was based on advice from public health experts; and if so, if she will publish such advice. [53300/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 331. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the decision to require advanced booking of tickets to attend events or venues involving dancing was based on similar requirements in place in other countries; and if so, the countries that have similar regimes. [53301/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 332. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the definition of dancing being used for the purposes of requiring the advanced booking of tickets; and the way such a definition was decided on. [53302/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 333. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the guidelines being issued for the reopening of live entertainment and nightlife will have any binding legal weight. [53303/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 334. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the meetings or consultation that took place between her Department and the Department of the Taoiseach, An Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Minister for Transport and the Environment, Climate and Communications in the week prior to their joint press conference on 19 October 2021 in which...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 335. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the meetings or consultation that took place between her Department and representatives of the live performance and nightlife sector, including workers and businesses, in the week prior to the announcements on 19 October 2021 of the plans for easing restrictions on the sector. [53305/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 336. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the change that occurred between her Department’s meeting with industry representatives on 21 October 2021 and 22 October 2021 that required the guidelines for the reopening of live entertainment and nightlife to be altered to include ticketing requirements; and the reason industry representatives were given no advance...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 337. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on whether the late provision of guidelines until the day of the 22 October 2021 reopening contributed to widespread confusion on the part of businesses and workers in the live entertainment and nightlife industry which in some cases led to venues feeling unable to reopen; the measures she is putting in place to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artists' Remuneration (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the communication she has had with the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to devise a scheme to immediately continue supporting artists and performance workers whose ability to work remains restricted or limited as they are being removed from the pandemic unemployment payment; the engagement her...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Transport Costs (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 940. To ask the Minister for Health the cost per year for the past five years for each hospital to ferry or deliver blood, blood samples, breast milk or tissues or organs between hospitals and the Irish Blood Transfusion Service; if that was spent on taxis, courier companies, HSE or other emergency service vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52594/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 Nov 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 941. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided annually to charities (details supplied); and if his attention has been drawn to the vital work of same as an aid to hospitals during and before the Covid-19 pandemic. [52595/21]