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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I have just one minute left. Specifically, does the Minister have concerns about the issue of handing over data? Did the Department discuss algorithms with those companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Does the Minister have concerns over the handing over of data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Does the Minister believe their safety is enhanced by handing over their personal data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Did the Minister discuss algorithms?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Algorithms have to be absolutely front and centre in those discussions. It is a much more effective way to look at protecting our children online, aiding their education-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: -----and also consider platforms as publishers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: The Minister mentioned the development of subsea cables as a departmental priority. The existing subsea cables are privately owned. How does a privately-owned asset improve our autonomy as a State and will the Department be subsidising the development of new cables?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Besides the routes, what about the private or public ownership of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: As long as they are privately owned, does the Minister accept they do not necessarily improve our autonomy as a State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: It does not enhance our autonomy.

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. I am proud to stand beside Deputy Gannon, who speaks with such a strong voice for Dublin city centre. He always has done, in particular on issues related to how we make Dublin a place for all people and really protect our culture and heritage. I want to briefly cover three key points. The first is that the GPO is such a vital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank the witnesses for coming to the committee again. I wish to discuss the relationship between the Department and the Arts Council. A lot of people from the arts community have come to me expressing concern about the change of name, which to some people might seem a small piece, but for a lot of people it is symbolic. That, combined with what seems now to be quite a public row,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: That is my point. The Department of public expenditure says "No". When the Department itself does not want to say "No", it says that the Department of public expenditure says "No". There was a risk associated with not allocating seniority to this role. A decision was made not to give the Arts Council a principal officer but to give it a higher executive officer. That, arguably, resulted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Does the Department have a picture of that process? I would have thought the Arts Council could have articulated the risk, regardless of whether it did it effectively. Who in the Department had sight of the risk if it was not given a senior enough role? How is it compared to the other recruitment and sanctioning?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I urge the Department when Ms Brennan is looking at this review that it could inform her thinking to look at State agencies and the dynamics. If you only have a small staff and you have requests, you consistently get this answer from your parent Department. We know it is not just about staff. In lots of different ways, you are lost in the melee. I am a member of the Association of Chief...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I appreciate that. I get all of that but the other part of it is that one key role. An agency does not operate on the same basis as a Department where principal officers are not ten-a-penny but there are a lot more of them than in a State agency. A year and a half is a long time to be without someone you were expecting to come in a little earlier. You are dealing with the PAS and all of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I am sorry; I am over time.