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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: The Government’s recently announced Economic Recovery Plan sets out a framework for recovery as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular for sectors most impacted, such as tourism. Under the Economic Recovery Plan, Government extended the period during which a range of horizontal and business supports will be available to enterprises and workers in...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: As part of the €50 million suite of supports for the live entertainment sector, I recently announced 237 grant allocations under the €25m Live Performance Support Scheme. This scheme aims to assist commercial venues, producers and promoters to plan live performances across the country over the summer months, supporting employment and well-being opportunities across all...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: I allocated €50 million in 2021 to a suite of measures to assist the arts and culture sector. As part of that funding, on Tuesday June 15th I announced the allocations for the €25m Live Performance Support Scheme (LPSS 2021).  I was delighted to be in a position to fund 237 successful applications under this scheme, the details of which are available on my...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: State Bodies (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: As Minister, I have responsibility for the governance of agencies and bodies under the aegis of my Department to ensure full compliance on the reporting requirements under the Code of Practice for the Governance of State bodies and the governance functions included in the legislative and regulatory frameworks for each of the respective bodies. The issue to which the Deputy refers is...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: On Friday May 28th the Government agreed pilot events will take place in June and July. My Department has worked with the Arts Council and a number of stakeholder engagement structures in place to support the development and delivery of those pilot events. The first event took place in the Iveagh Gardens on the 10th of June in collaboration with the National Concert Hall and further events...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: The pandemic has had a particularly disruptive impact on city and town centres. It has also triggered discussions around re-imagining our cities and towns as better places to live, work and visit and bodies across Government and local government have been responding to this promptly and thoroughly. It is clear that appropriate artistic, cultural, public realm animation and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: I allocated €50 million in 2021 to a suite of measures to assist the arts and culture sector. As part of that funding, on Tuesday June 15th I announced the allocations for the €25m Live Performance Support Scheme (LPSS 2021).  I was delighted to be in a position to fund 237 successful applications under this scheme, the details of which are available on my...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Museum Projects (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: My Department supports a range of commemorative activity in relation to the Great Irish Famine, including national and international commemorative events on an annual basis. In addition, there are many local museums and other entities around the country that display material relating to the tragic events of this period in Irish history, such as the very significant Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 269 and 271 together. Decisions on COVID-19 public health measures are the responsibility of Government and are made by Cabinet, on foot of advice from NPHET and the Minister for Health.  In line with the plan set out in The Path Ahead the Government has been implementing a phased easing of restrictions for the month of June. The Government will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: I have been very cognisant of the fact that the arts and culture sectors have been amongst the hardest hit by the necessary restrictions required to deal with COVID-19. I and my officials have been in regular and ongoing communication with stakeholders over the past 15 months to fully understand the challenges posed by COVID-19.  I established a number of taskforces and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Policies (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: The COVID-19 pandemic has utterly changed the operating landscape for the Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. I am continuing to review the situation with my Department and Government colleagues based on up to date information on the roll-out of the vaccination programme and the prevailing epidemiological situation. I have been actively working with the sectors within my...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: The Government’s recently announced Economic Recovery Plan sets out a framework for recovery as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular sectors most impacted, such as tourism.  Under the Economic Recovery Plan, Government extended the period during which a range of horizontal and business supports will be available to enterprises and workers in...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: I am critically aware of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cultural sector and have engaged intensively with Government colleagues, stakeholders and officials to ensure that an appropriate suite of supports is available for the sector. In this context, I allocated €50 million in 2021 to a number of measures to assist the culture sector, which includes...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: Details (at subhead level) of the annual funding allocations provided by my Department to Fáilte Ireland are available in the annual Revised Estimates Volume published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The subheads of relevance to Fáilte Ireland in 2021 are A3, A6 and A5 (shared with Tourism Ireland) and further detail is available in the Agency Statement...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: Tourism Ireland is funded through the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland. Funding drawn down from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in 2020 amounted to €53,698,000 and for 2021 the amount allocated is €58,065,000. The...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: RTE is dual funded from commercial revenue and licence fee receipts.  There was no funding allocated to RTE in 2020, other than in respect of  the licence fee.  The only additional funding allocated by my Department in 2021 was in respect of the funding agreed to support Irish language broadcasting in Northern Ireland alongside the New Decade, New Approach agreement. In...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: The Department does not directly fund local authorities for tourism purposes and all tourism funding is channelled through the tourism agencies Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland.  Details (at subhead level) of the annual funding allocations provided by my Department in regard to tourism are contained within the annual Revised Estimates Volume published by the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: Current public service pay rates, which apply to both my Department and the State Agencies under my Department's remit, are set out in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 12 of 2020, application of 1st of October 2020 pay adjustments, available at: https://www.gov.ie/en/circular/39b2c-circular-12-2020-applic ation-of-1st-of-october-2020-pay-adjustments/  I can...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: I am critically aware of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the culture and entertainment sector and have engaged intensively with Government colleagues, stakeholders and officials to ensure that an appropriate suite of supports is available for the sector. As part of the €50 million funding which I secured for the live entertainment sector, I recently confirmed the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Jun 2021)

Catherine Martin: Under the current COVID-19 Regulations, taking account of public health advice, indoor guided tours are not permitted. However, in line with the provisions for small outdoor events, outdoor guided tours are permitted for up to 15 participants (not including those present in a professional capacity – e.g. the tour guide). The Government is due to meet later this month to decide on...