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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: Any solution through the Department of Justice appeal process leaves them too late. The €40,000 they paid for flights will be gone because they had to pay beforehand. We need to discuss this, and the broader issue of visas from Palestine, today.
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: I apologise for having had to pop out. I have just a few questions. The first is about sport. The community sport facilities fund is seeing an increase of roughly 50%, which is really welcome. I see that the target reach of the fund in terms of payments made and, by extension, clubs and initiatives supported has increased by only 14%. Can the Minister of State outline the rationale for...
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: Moving on to broadcasting, one figure jumped out at me and I am sure there is an easy enough explanation for it. It was under financial and human resources inputs, C7, Coimisiún na Meán. The funding seems to have decreased from €5 million to €150,000. Is that accounted for elsewhere or is there a decrease or was it to do with the setup costs?
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: Okay, so it was just that first year for setup and now it has its own income. Perfect. I thank the Minister for that. Do the targets for the numbers of hours of Irish-language programming per day encapsulate RTÉ and TG4 together? Do they also bring together all TV programming, public and private? As a follow-on question, would the Minister consider breaking up those targets...
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: Please. That would be great because they are just slightly different in that they have that different objective of Irish-language support, so it would be helpful to see Irish-language broadcasting not just in one bucket but rather through the different channels providing it. On arts and culture and the basic income for the arts scheme, this is just a small thing, but the output targets...
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: Goodness.
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: Exactly.
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: Yes, they do an incredible job. That money goes straight into the economy and straight into those communities. It would be great to see that extended and replicated. Sometimes, perhaps, TG4 and its success have been somewhat overshadowed by other broadcasters in these discussions. It is important to make sure they are kept prominent and front and centre.
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: Exactly, yes.
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: The target and outputs for individual artists in receipt of funding is 2,100. That is the same as last year, as is the target for organisations. Does that figure for individual artists include the basic income scheme?
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: Are there any plans to expand that or increase those targets?
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: The output targets for the number of film and television projects funded by Screen Ireland are also lower this year than they were last year. In the context of wanting to support the fantastic work of Irish writers, directors, producers and actors, why are we not seeing an increase in the target for projects supported in that area?
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: I absolutely endorse that because the fact that production is so concentrated in Dublin and Wicklow is an issue. We do need to see efforts to stimulate it outside of that hub. I welcome that. I thank the Minister.
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: I have a follow-up question on the basic income for the arts scheme. I do not think I said in the last round that I think it is brilliant that it is being rolled out for artists. I appreciate that the scheme is particularly suited to the artistic community where there is so much precarity and difficulty in making a living. I also have an interest in how basic income can be applied into...
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: Okay, thank you.
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: As it is a pilot, I think there is a need to build into the budgetary system a way of monitoring it and monitoring its success. What is the Department doing to get data that can be reused by other Departments?
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: I feel for the control group in the whole pilot system. Are they considered for the extension? I know we are getting slightly into the nuts and bolts.
- Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025) Sinéad Gibney: Okay. I thank the Minister.