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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Measures (4 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, I did not say that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Measures (4 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, three references.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Measures (4 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As I said, there are three references, one was that the information on the back of cigarette packages was hampered in such a small space due to the length of the sentence in the bilingual approach. That was a view expressed. It is not scientific analysis of the effect because bilingual labels were never tried. Others viewed the inclusion of the messages in the Irish language as irrelevant....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Measures (4 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is disputed.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Measures (4 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will provide the Minister of State with a copy of the details.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Measures (4 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Obviously, the Minister did not read it either.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Measures (4 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was either that or he told a big porky.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legislative Measures (4 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is totally unfair that the Minister is not here and that he sent the Minister of State to answer on something he said to me in the Dáil last week for which there was no basis. I have sympathy for Deputy Byrne in her predicament as a Minister of State. I am shocked that the Minister did not, as was arranged by the reform committee at the beginning of this Dáil, come in here and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My first question relates to capital expenditure on heritage. By the end of June only 18% or €1.811 million of the allocation of €10.12 million for heritage had been spent. Does the Minister have more up-to-date figures? Those figures are so historical, they could be put in a museum. Will the Minister indicate what was the capital spend under subheads B3 to B8, inclusive, at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I was hoping it would not all be spent because I have a better use for it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will the Minister give me the bottom line figure? How much had been spent by the end of September?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Let us forget about profile. Only €3 million of the €10 million allocation had been spent. An issue arises, which has been ongoing in the public service for a long time. The Minister is not the first to come up against it because I came up against it in my time as a Minister. If the Minister has only spent €3 million of €10 million in nine months, which is 30%...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It does not matter because it is irrelevant. This is done in the Department to avoid me asking the awkward question about why it is so far behind profile.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Department had put in the profile pro rataacross the year the way the bills should have come in and the work should have been done-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That profile is low to avoid awkward questions. The Minister is telling me the Department has probably been billed for €4 million but work to a value of €7 million has probably been done. I want to know why was there a delay in getting the bills in if the work is done. This messing goes on in agencies all of the time and in two weeks' time, we will have exactly the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Na billí.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We will move on. As the Minister knows, with go deimhin the Chairman, I have been very involved in the issue of Moore Street. It is a very important issue on which work is ongoing in the Department. Will the Minister indicate what the Department's plans are for 14 to 17 Moore Street? Also, we notice in the ten-year plan, to which the Minister alluded in her opening statement, that capital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is unfortunate that there was an overlap with committee meetings earlier. The Minister stated that an unprecedented amount of money is being provided for the Irish language under the national development plan. Given that the provision of €178 million works out at €17.8 million a year, I ask her to outline the basis for her statement to the effect that the amount is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I hear what the Minister is saying. She is saying it is for the culture and the heritage, but it is not for the Gaeilge.