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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Official Engagements (2 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I wish to advise the Deputy that both my diary, and the Minister of State's diary, will be published on the Department's website in the coming days. Subsequent diaries will be published on a quarterly basis, in arrears, in line with standard practice.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (2 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The tourism bodies that come under the Department’s aegis are Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland. The appropriate Oireachtas contact for Fáilte Ireland is oireachtas@failteireland.ie and for Tourism Ireland is Oireachtasqueries@tourismireland.com.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: European Council (2 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Ireland will hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the period July to December 2026. As part of preparations for the Presidency, officials in my Department have been engaging extensively with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade across a number of fora: Officials from my Department attend regular meetings of the Inter-Departmental Group on Presidency Policy...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (2 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The role of the Department in relation to tourism lies primarily in the area of national tourism policy, and implementation of that policy is a matter for the tourism agencies, Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland. Fáilte Ireland has developed a capacity and pipeline monitor to track ongoing movement in accommodation capacity. This includes changes in current capacity and the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cross-Border Co-operation (2 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The UK Nationality and Borders Act 2022 provides for the establishment of a scheme under which non-visa required nationals will need to obtain an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) before travelling to the UK. The scheme entered into force on a phased basis from October 2023. The ETA requirement does not apply to Irish citizens due to the Common Travel Area arrangements. However, the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (2 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: In support of Action 7 in the Report of the Night-Time Economy Taskforce (available from ) the Department commissioned a survey in 2024, to examine the issues for patrons and artists with disabilities when going out at night and engaging in cultural activities. The issue of accessibility and the barriers that currently exist in the Night-Time Economy (NTE) has been raised on a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (2 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Department's role in relation to tourism lies primarily in the area of national tourism policy and implementation of that policy is a matter for the tourism agencies, Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland. The matter raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for Fáilte Ireland. Accordingly, I have referred this question to that agency for direct response to the Deputy....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Meetings (2 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: There was a Ministerial Management Board meeting held on 20th February and the list of attendees is as set out in the table below Name Title/Grade Patrick O Donovan Minister Charlie Mc Conalogue Minister of State Michael O Connor Advisor to Minister Ciaran O Donnell Advisor to...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Less patronising now.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: For today's vote on the Ceann Comhairle to be warranted, one would have imagined that she would have done something wrong last week. I was sitting in this seat, close to the Ceann Comhairle - the only other person in front was the Taoiseach - so I had the benefit of hearing the Chief Whip, the Taoiseach in his efforts to try to be heard and the Ceann Comhairle throughout all of it. The only...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Just let me finish.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: You had a good run last week. Of all parties, Labour should remember what was done to its former leader, Joan Burton, another woman who held a constitutional officer position and who herself had to confront behaviour not too dissimilar from what we saw-----

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Devine will have her chance in a minute. It was not too dissimilar from what happened in this Chamber last week. All our parties are trying to encourage women into politics, but all of a sudden, the united leader of the Opposition has emerged and the Labour Party just joined in as a kind of silent little lamb. In the process of doing that-----

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Bacik today gave a great oration-----

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: -----about the importance of Ireland having a clear position with regard to trade and our position in the world. What have the Labour Party and other parties in here done? They have withdrawn pairs. Today's vote was always inevitable-----

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: -----because they could not accept the reality that a Government had been formed and we wanted to get on and govern. The main party opposite could never accept that-----

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: -----and now we have the two centre-left parties just coming along like mud flaps.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourist Accommodation (1 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The General Scheme of the Registration of Short Term Tourist Letting Bill was approved by Government and published in December 2022. This Bill provided for the establishment of regulatory controls, including a register for all Short Term Letting (STL) properties. Following a legally required notification of the General Scheme to the European Commission under the Technical Regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Library (1 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 440, 441 and 442 together. While my Department provides funding to the national cultural institutions, the management and board of each institution are responsible for all operational matters and I do not have a statutory function in this regard. Heraldic responsibility for Ireland was historically under the remit of the Office of the Ulster King of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Bodies (1 Apr 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: All public bodies under the aegis of this Department are deemed compliant with Part 5 of the Disability Act 2005 by the National Disability Authority (NDA). The NDA, under the aegis of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, has a statutory role to monitor compliance with Part 5 of the Disability Act 2005 in the public sector. Each public body under the...