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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (28 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: 757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting 14 months to move to the next stage of their apprenticeship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21659/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: 1078. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can enter Ireland without having to quarantine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22201/21]
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: We have one item of business to address before I call on our witnesses to present to the committee. I take it that the draft minutes of our public and private committee meetings of 20 April are formally agreed and that there are no matters arising from them. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: This meeting has been convened with the Federation of Irish Sport, the Ladies Gaelic Football Association, LGFA, the Camogie Association and the Gaelic Players Association, GPA, to discuss issues facing women in sport and the progress made following the 20x20 campaign. The witnesses will be joining the meeting remotely via Teams. I welcome Ms Mary O’Connor from the Federation of...
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I ask Ms O'Connor to conclude. I am sorry to speak across her but we have run over time. We are very curtailed. Back in the day, before the pandemic, we would have had meetings that could go on for hours but we are restricted to two hours tonight. I want to make sure we get to tease out the issues as much as possible. I thank Ms O'Connor and call Ms O'Rourke from the LGFA.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Ms O'Rourke for her comprehensive presentation. I call on Ms Gemma Begley to make her presentation.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Ms Begley for another insightful presentation. I also thank her for her time and effort for putting it together for our members. I call Ms McNulty to make her presentation.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: Can I interrupt Ms McNulty very briefly? We are having a technical issue this side. If she turns off her camera and turns it back on again, it might resolve itself. We have her again. She was frozen a few minutes ago.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: Could I ask Ms McNulty to conclude as we have gone over your time? She will have the opportunity to come back in and extrapolate the points she made. Does she wish to make a closing comment?
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Ms O'Connor, Ms O'Rourke, Ms Begley and Ms McNulty. I know their contributions will inspire many questions from our members.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: That is no problem.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: Thirty seconds.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: That is a great suggestion. All the members and witnesses present will agree with that. We will see that this letter goes to the Department containing those requests.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: Would Senator Cassells like anyone in particular to respond?
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: In that order, ladies, away you go.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: Do I see Ms O'Connor offering?
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Senator Cassells for all those questions and his long statement. I call Deputy Griffin.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: That is fine, Deputy Dillon.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: Senator Carrigy is next.
- Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Deputy Griffin for those questions and our guests for their answers. Deputy O'Sullivan is on the line now.