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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a dhéanamh leis an Roinn mar gheall ar an obair atá idir láimh aige. There is so much wonderful activity happening in the arts sector and we do not spend enough time focusing on all of that. Much of that work happens as a result of the funding and the development that is facilitated by these organisations. One of the reasons we looked to have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Does that include harassment and bullying issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: I do not want to interrupt but I want to be specific around those two particular criteria that would be in employment law, bullying and harassment. Would they be part of the criteria by which the Arts Council adjudges whether or not an organisation should get funding? Second, because it could be a Bill that we could bring in, for example, to give the Arts Council the power to potentially...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Have funds ever been withdrawn from an organisation previously?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: One other thing, €68 million is a fantastic budget. It is a big budget and it comes with heavy responsibilities the Arts Council obviously takes seriously. Interestingly, it was asked of me would it be a good idea for the chairperson of the council to have the same duties as an Accounting Officer with regards to the disposal of funding so that he or she would be considered an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: My next question does not refer to any individuals whatsoever. The arts space is small and, therefore, people get to know each other very well. How often is the board of directors for the Arts Council, for example, renewed? Is it renewed every five or ten years? How regularly would a board member step down? Can he or she rejoin after a couple of years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Is it a five-year term?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Could an arts officer or artist in Ennis apply, for example? Are members drawn from a broad range of sectors? Is selection based on certain criteria?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Do board members step out of meetings that discuss funding for certain organisations if there is a conflict of interest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Is an affirmative demographic criterion used to deliver funds? In other words, if one wants a particular socioeconomic cohort to be represented when it comes to funding, perhaps percentage-wise, does that aspect form part of the governance of funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Is there an affirmative element in terms of socioeconomic brackets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Very good. It has been mentioned in the reports that the Arts Council has appointed an independent auditor. I understand that an auditor employed by the Arts Council goes into some of the multi-annual funded organisations and examines whether the funding has been spent according to the prospectus. Does the auditor play a role in protecting workers' rights and preventing bullying or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: The Arts Council is not a regulatory body and I do not necessarily think it should be. Can an independent auditor be used to resolve some of the problems that have occurred in the industry in the past number of years? How can we improve the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: My last question is for the Department. The previous Minister, Deputy Humphreys, indicated that she would develop a forum comprised of the heads of the theatres. Can the Department update us on the matter? It might be a good idea were a longer and more embedded industry-wide forum to be developed. Some of the problems that have happened in the arts sector and in the film sector, which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: I have given 15 minutes for the Senator's answers. We can come back to it again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Arts Sector Funding: Discussion (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh maith agat faoí sin. The good work which forms the vast part of the picture has to be recognised, but there are critical difficulties in the sector, although I appreciate efforts are being made to change the culture, which is really important work. I understand workers need a safe place in which to contribute in the arts sector. From the perspective of the Department and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (17 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have received, or are in the process of receiving, debt write offs on loans they acquired under the land aggregation scheme; the local authorities which have received debt write offs on such loans, in tabular form; and the process for the application of debt write offs under the scheme. [2219/18]

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Ba mhaith liom cúpla ráiteas a thabhairt don Aire mar gheall ar an mhéid atá ag titim amach i gContae na Mí. I have been given a couple of statements recently relating to the difficulties with the trolley count in Navan. I hear that people are stuck in the waiting room of the emergency department in Navan without getting access to the hospital itself. They are...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Properties (16 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 95. To ask the Taoiseach the vacant properties and land not in use, owned, rented or leased by his Department or by bodies and agencies under the aegis of his Department by square footage for buildings and acres for land, in tabular form; the address and location of these properties; and the last date of occupancy or use of these properties. [55219/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Funding (16 Jan 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: 114. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the name and number of organisations here that are in receipt of funding from his Department that have expended resources seeking the repeal of the eighth amendment; the amount of funding these organisations have received from the State in the past five years; the amount of money they have spent on this particular campaign during that time;...