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Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: As amendment No. 13 has been accepted, amendments Nos. 14 to 16, inclusive, cannot be moved.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá leasú Uimh. 19 ceangailte le leasuithe Uimh. 20 agus 228.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá leasuithe Uimh. 23, 27, 32, 96, 104, 106, 109 go 112, go huile, agus 125 gaolta agus pléimid le chéile iad.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá leasuithe Uimh. 24 agus 229 gaolta agus pléimid le chéile iad.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá leasuithe Uimh. 25, 35 agus 36 gaolta agus pléimid le chéile iad.

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis na Daonlathaithe Sóisialta as an rún seo a chur os ár gcomhair. Tacaím go huile agus go hiomlán leis. Two weeks ago, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael clubbed together to vote down Sinn Féin's Bill to stop our Central Bank from facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds. What have those war bonds funded since that decision? The Israeli...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will continue with the Arts Council. I was looking through the sequence of events. The project started way back in May 2017. At that stage it was said "there was an increasing risk from hardware and software which was nearing the end of life, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to support and enhance some components of the architecture". Eight years later, given the failure of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Over the years, I have received quite a number of complaints about artists struggling with the system trying to deal with applications. Obviously that is worse if the Arts Council is dealing with a lot more money and staff. The witnesses also mentioned that part of the work on the system that was intended was not only around the customer interface or management but also finance which I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I presume the off-the-shelf option has an annual cost rather than a once-off cost of the other system, which would have been controlled by the Arts Council. The off-the-shelf interfaced the two systems of finance and HR systems and then the customer database or management system. What is the cost expected to be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: When is the new system expected to go live? It was said the old system was clunky and needed to transfer it at some stage. This is so that the artists can be assured that there will be a new system and it will be managed better and maybe the Palestinians can apply because at the moment they cannot apply. If someone says he or she is a Palestinian artist, then he or she cannot apply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: How long has that request been with the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: With all this chaos and an increased budget to the Arts Council, there still is not a system that the witnesses would be happy with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will turn to the Department. I have looked through the document recommendations. The biggest thing that comes out of it is how convoluted the process was. No organisation, whether it is under the Department of arts or many of the other Departments where we are finding out there are IT problems, should be expected to have the IT expertise. Is one of the key recommendations from this,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Like an IT expert?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will come back to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Despite the figure being less than 1% of the Arts Council budget in that period, it is still a substantial amount of €6.7 million. Did any of the senior team of the Arts Council or of the Department in 2017, 2018 or 2019 look at or recommend the cheaper off-the-shelf model before the contracts were signed? That is key to much of this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I know there were people in the Arts Council and in the area suggesting an alternative. Was the business case made for an off-the-shelf model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Who recommended the business case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is the director who also signed the business case to move to Westland Row. That collapsed at a cost to the Arts Council as well in that period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There were costs involved in it. It was the same period. For a director of the Arts Council, is it the norm for a period to be extended? Is it for five years or two years? What is the norm?