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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Projects (24 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: My Department provides funding for initiatives in Arts and Culture, Communications, Media, and Sport. Any such projects currently under construction are broadly on schedule and within budget. Updates on the progress of projects under the National Development Plan can be accessed via '', available from 'MyProjectIreland Interactive Map and Tracker'.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (24 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Creative Europe Desk (CED) Ireland is the national contact point for the EU Creative Europe funding programme for the culture and audio-visual sectors. The Arts Council is a partner of CED Ireland. I have asked the Arts Council to make direct contact and provide the Deputy with the information requested in relation to how organisations in Ireland south can access the Creative Europe...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (24 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Local and regional journalism plays a vital role in the provision of valuable public service content to the Irish public. The Future of Media Commission, in examining the challenges faced by the media sector, made a number of recommendations to counter these challenges and to support the provision of public service content. One recommendation was for a new Media Fund to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 300 and 301 together. In 2020 – 2022 to assist with programming during the COVID era and to sustain the creative sector, the Department provided significant financial support to the St Patrick's Festival company in respect of online content directed to both the national and international audiences including the diaspora. However, from 2023, when...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 302, 303 and 304 together. Pride is a national awareness programme, part of an international expression of identity and a campaign for equality and respect. It is organised at community level and the whole of June is considered Pride month. 2024 held significant anniversaries for LGBTQ+ group in the republic and PRIDE continues to build on this in 2025,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Department's blended working policy requires all staff to attend a minimum of two days per week in the office. The roles of Service Officers, Head Service Officers, Service Attendants and Civilian Drivers are not suitable for hybrid working due to the nature of these roles. The data available relates to the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport & Media, prior...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Arts Policy (17 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The growth of streaming platforms over recent years has resulted in presented wide-ranging and ongoing opportunities for the Irish audiovisual industry. Many productions made in Ireland are now streaming across the world on the major streaming platforms. Many of these are also set in Ireland so that Irish culture, society and landscapes are becoming familiar to a global audience. This...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Arts Policy (17 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Programme for Government commits to assessing the Basic Income for the Arts pilot research scheme to maximise its impact. I fully appreciate the importance of the Basic Income support for artists. I know there is broad-based support for the scheme, and I met recently with the National Campaign for the Arts (NCFA) to hear its views on the scheme in detail. I understand the anxiety of pilot...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (17 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The State's target is to ensure gigabit capable broadband services are made available to all premises in the country by 2028 from at least one infrastructure provider. Once this infrastructure is in place, a significant number of retail service providers can then provide services to end users. This provides consumers with significant choice and is likely to drive competition. The Department...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Arts Funding (17 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: My Department focuses on providing capital grant funding to assist the development and to maintain arts and cultural facilities. Funding is administered through applications received for two specific grant schemes relevant to the collection and collation of local historical artefacts. The Regional Museum Exhibition Scheme is a scheme of funding support from my Department for local,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Artists' Remuneration (17 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Programme for Government commits to assessing the Basic Income for the Arts pilot research scheme to maximise its impact. I fully appreciate the importance of the Basic Income support for artists. I know there is broad-based support for the scheme, and I met recently with the National Campaign for the Arts (NCFA) to hear its views on the scheme in detail. I understand the anxiety of pilot...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Websites (17 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: My Department employs analytics tools to track website traffic and indicates traffic from ChatGPT for the period. Please see below the analytics specific to my Department that relate to this request. 11-30 June 2024 Jul 24 Aug 24 Sep 24 Oct 24 Nov 24 Dec 24 Jan 2025 Feb 25 March 25 April 25 ...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (17 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: At present, my Department does not have an application for funding from the group referred to by the Deputy. The group previously applied for funding and was successful under Stream D of my Department's Cultural Capital Scheme. The grant was drawn down in full, by the group in April 2021. Stream D was set up specifically to assist arts and culture organisations to reopen safely after...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Bodies (17 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Details of funding allocated to State Agencies under the remit of my Department are published in The Revised Estimates Volumes for the Public Service as published by the Department of Public Expenditure, Reform, and NDP Delivery and are available at: www.gov.ie/en/department-of-public-expenditure-infrastructur e-public-service-reform-and-digitalisation/collections/the-r...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Bodies (17 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: The current Chairperson of the Board of the National Concert Hall, Ms Maura McGrath, was appointed to a second five-year term with effect from 24 June 2021, as provided for in section 9.1.5 of the Guidelines for Appointments to State Boards. My Department is currently liaising with Publicjobs (the Public Appointments Service) with the intention of advertising a competition to fill current...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Contracts (17 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am informed that my Department, as then constituted, did not award any contracts to communications and PR firms in 2024. Regarding the bodies under my Department’s remit, these are operational matters for the bodies themselves. It should be noted that my Department was re-configured as the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport at the beginning of this month.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Bodies (17 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: My Department complies with the relevant governing legislation and - section 6.2 ("Reappointment of Incumbent CEOs") of the Guidelines for Appointments of CEOs of Non-Commercial State Bodies (2019) in relation to the reappointment of CEOs or Directions for a further and final term, and - sections 1.6 to 1.11 ("Commercial State Bodies") of the Code of Practice for the Governance of State...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Expenditure (12 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Following the Government’s decision to reconfigure the functions of this Department, my Department was formally established as the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport on 2 June 2025. My Department has taken a number of steps to ensure that this transition is as efficient and cost-effective as possible. Updated logos were issued to my Department by the Department of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Strategies (12 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: Following the formal transfer of functions from and to my Department which took effect on 1 June, my Department has now commenced the process of preparing a draft Statement of Strategy for the three-year period from 2025 to 2028. I look forward to considering the draft document in due course. The new Statement of Strategy will reflect the objectives as set out by the Programme for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (11 Jun 2025)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 146, 147, 157 and 158 together. The Government is committed to a sustainable An Post and post office network as a key component of the economic and social infrastructure throughout Ireland. The Programme for Government states that the Government will continue to provide the nationwide network of post offices with funding to ensure their sustainability and...