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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Arts Council (9 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, in light of his contribution to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Culture, Communications and Sport on 2 July 2025 that the Arts Council should not exclude comedy, he is prepared use his powers under section 5(3) of the Arts Act 2003 to give a direction in writing to the Council requiring it to comply...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (9 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason he proposed to delete the specific words recognising “the sacrifice of the men and women of 1916, who fought and died in the General Post Office (GPO), Moore Street, across Dublin and elsewhere in Ireland, so Ireland may be free” from the private members’ motion on GPO and Moore Street...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This Bill is not as earth-shattering as was presented and may in fact not even deliver any new homes especially given the Minister's announcement at the weekend of new dog-box sizes. Very few developers will turn down the extra golden eggs laid by the Government for them and will start all over again. They will modify their plans rather than go ahead with plans and look for an extension as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is interesting. Multiple Bills which should be interwoven are going through the Houses at the moment. There is the copyright directive, this Bill and a letter we have to deal with tomorrow at some stage which deals exactly with the point Mr. Dooley made about media mergers. It is one to give effect to the European Media Freedom Act, but we have not taken a decision on that, so the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To follow on from what Mr. Ó Síocháin is saying about conditionality with whatever funding there is, when it comes to State funding, I always believe any State funding should be conditional on having proper remuneration, protections and recognition at the highest level. To go back slightly to RTÉ, the redundancy exodus, the bogus self-employment and the morale, what is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The other question is where the exodus, or the kind of redundancy, that has been foisted on RTÉ now is at. Has it reached the numbers it wants or is it going to continue to be offered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Obviously, it is a huge number which will then affect the running of every single department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It basically means that RTÉ is not settled and it will not be settled for a number of years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Obviously, that deals with morale as well. Morale is down if the organisation you are in is not properly addressing the fallout.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (8 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he accepts the findings in the report of the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 entitled “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide”, published on 1 July 2025; if he will commit to implementing in full the three recommendations made in the report...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (8 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of issues with the CIÉ superannuation scheme 1951 (details supplied); the steps he will take, or has taken, to address the matter; and if he will instruct the CIÉ board to pause all trustee-related decisions pending the restoration of a fully functioning scheme committee. [37481/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (3 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 51. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps taken to address and suspend the use of unqualified, unregistered self-appointed experts on ‘parental alienation’, and the construct of parental alienation itself in family law cases, until the report of the review of experts into its role in the family law process is completed; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (3 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 107. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to taken to encourage landowners and Coillte to increase the percentage of native and other non-deciduous trees that are planted annually. [35135/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (3 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 128. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding available for urban horse projects to help enhance awareness of animal health and welfare for participants and the wider nearby community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35134/25]

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: One state stands apart as a uniquely dangerous nuclear rogue state run by a wanted war criminal facing charges of genocide before the International Court of Justice. It is a state engaged in acts of terror throughout the Middle East, including illegal occupation, settlements, apartheid, annexation, ethnic cleansing, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, the use of aid distribution...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank all the sports men and women, teachers, coaches, creative artists and other workers across the country who make our lives so much better by sharing their imagination and energy with us. We are a different country because of that and in many ways that is what sets us apart. There are a huge range of issues in the Department. We are jumping from RTÉ to post offices to arts, etc....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister is talking about a group rather than artists in general, meaning that it will be something similar to another 2,000 and not a payment across the board.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister cannot figure out what money is required until he figures out how many people are involved. If it is 2,000, it is something similar.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The question is whether it is for artists in general. If it is for artists in general, it would be a much bigger and that would be ambitious. Will it just be 2,000 people or a figure close to that?