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Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Once we have a conclusion of the community small sports capital scheme memorandum to Government, I hope that by spring 2026 I will be able to bring a recommendation to Government that we open up the CSFF and quench once and for all some of those that are hanging around longer than I am in the Dáil. I do not believe that is fair, to be honest.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: We are likely to see it in the forthcoming year. We have a substantial amount of work done. We received an allocation under the national development plan. We will be issuing a call early in 2026 for an arts capital scheme. It will be smaller than the sports capital scheme because we want to ensure we have everything tied down first, but this will be transformative for an awful lot of...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I entirely reject any assertion that there would be anything other than full independence of the organisation. I mean-----

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am sorry, but I did not interrupt the Deputy. I do not accept any assertion that it is anything other than a fully independent organisation, with a person who has come through a competitive process to lead IFCO. They have my full support and full confidence. The Deputy is throwing in words like "groupthink". I have enough to be doing, and so do the civil servants, without watching films...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have answered, and I will dismiss it, because it deserves to be dismissed.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I dismissed it because it deserved to be dismissed. I suggest that if the Deputy wants to bring IFCO before the committee, I imagine IFCO would have no hesitation in doing that.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: If the Deputy keeps interrupting me, there is no point in my being here.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am here to answer questions, and the Deputy made an assertion with regard to the independence of IFCO and its work vis-à-vis the relationship with the Department that I reject. If the Deputy wants to engage with IFCO, the committee should issue an invitation for it to come in. With regard to other forms of broadcast, Coimisiún na Meán has an obvious role in online...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will take the last point first. I am not going to tell people how much they have to charge for a suite of furniture or a pound of rashers. We thankfully live in an open, liberal and modern democracy and in a market that is not a communist regime. I am not going to tell Disney how much it does or does not charge. It is a matter for the consumers to decide if they want to watch that or...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: We have already taken away the first cliff edge that was left for them and that should be acknowledged, too.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Regarding Comhaltas and comedy, the Deputy knows that we have a report due from Professor Niamh Brennan in respect of the Arts Council and its governance issues. Last week, a "Prime Time Investigates" clearly demonstrated that a number of comedians had been locked out, for want of a better phrase, by the Arts Council. The Arts Council subsequently said it would love to engage with them but...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do not know what the Brennan report will state. It will certainly give us food for thought and it may require legislative changes. If, when I have the report back from Professor Brennan, I am required to make amendments to the principal Act, I hope I will have sufficient time to make them all together. That will include the issue the Deputy raised, which he has raised with me previously,...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: In relation to the FAI, my position is clear. The FAI needs to continue to engage with the committee, as elected representatives, and with us, as a Department. I am not in the business of debt relief. Moneys that are owed are moneys that have to be paid.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is in the national development plan, NDP. A total of €6 million will be the first allocation. We will make that available by way of a call for applications early in 2026.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is additional.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: No, that is additional money. It will be specifically for those organisations that are currently outside all the national cultural institutions. Anybody in a community organisation that is looking for capital at the moment cannot access it. This will be akin to the sports capital scheme. It will be the first of its kind and will take off after Christmas.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: What I have budgeted for is that the scheme will start in the second half of next year. The real cliff edge was last week because the cliff edge was the budget. If we had not secured agreement from the Department of public expenditure and reform, that would have been the cliff edge. Thanks to the interventions of a lot of people, including the engagement between my Department and the...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Further Revised) (15 Oct 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I have not decided that. I have is a sum of money. The Deputy is around here a lot longer than I am. If I increase the basic sum, I decrease the numbers of people. There are loads of issues here.