Results 61-80 of 11,205 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: How dare the Deputy cast aspersions on me. On what basis is the Deputy casting aspersions on me?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: On what basis is the Deputy casting aspersions on me?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy should take it up with his colleague, Deputy Pa Daly. Do not come in here like a hypocrite.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy wants to have his cake and to eat it. He has a problem with Listowel Writers' Week.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy has a problem with the people of Listowel but he has no problem with Gweedore.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy is a hypocrite.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy is a hypocrite.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The people of Listowel and Deputy Daly will know all about.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: They will get more next year.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: There is an open invite to everybody.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: Because I am in favour of the people of Listowel. I will take Deputy McGuinness on as well.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: Exactly. The decent people of Listowel.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to takes Questions No. 6, 20, 23, 26 and 32 together. The basic income for the arts is a pilot research programme which will inform future Government policy on how best to support Ireland’s artists and creative arts workers. The primary objective of the scheme was to help artists deal with precarious incomes and prevent talent from leaving the sector for economic...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: I will finish reading the reply for the record. Last week I published a cost benefit analysis showing the net fiscal cost of the BIA was just under €72 million over the three years compared to gross cost of €105 million over three years. For every €1 of public money invested in the pilot, society received €1.39 in return. The cost-benefit analysis shows that...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: I will go back to Deputy Ó Snodaigh's point with regard to disability. In the discussions I have already had in the Department with the representative groups, I have made clear my intention that if there is a successor scheme, there will be a clear focus on artists who have a disability in order to make sure they have access to the scheme. They should also be assisted in making an...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: With regard to farmers, carers and everything else, that will be a matter for the line Ministers in each of the individual Departments. At the moment, my focus is on the questions that are before the House.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The short answer is "No", but I will give the Deputy a longer answer now.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: I understand the Deputy is referring to the approval on 30 May of an allocation of support not to exceed €25,000 in respect of the Listowel Writers Festival. My Department has a number of processes for allocating funding to a wide range of artistic and cultural organisations and events. These processes are designed to ensure fairness and, insofar as possible, maximise responsiveness...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy might say it is "outside of the normal channels" but I wonder if he ran this question by his colleague, Deputy Pa Daly, who represents the constituency of Kerry, before he came into the Chamber. Deputy Daly has used a similar channel for festival in Tralee called Anam. It was approved under that channel and received €7,500. There was no difficulty with that. I do not...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)
Patrick O'Donovan: Do as I say and not as I do.