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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: The Deputy's time is up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I thank the Minister, the Ministers of State, Deputies O'Sullivan and Cummins, and their officials from the Department for coming before the committee to discuss such important business. It is a bit disappointing. I imagine questions will be asked about the fact information was not available at the start of the meeting. That concludes our business in public session. I now propose we go...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (8 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received under the humanitarian assistance scheme for stages 1, 2 and 3 following Storm Éowyn; the total number of applications received by his Department; the number of applications processed to date; the number of applications approved and rejected, by county; and if he will make a...

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)

Micheál Carrigy: The Minister and the Minister of State are very welcome. I was listening in online and I welcome comments by the Minister pertaining to theatre and drama groups and looking at providing funding for community centres that host so many events throughout the country. We have seen groups out fund-raising to put on shows. A huge amount of time has been put in by the people who are working in...

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)

Micheál Carrigy: I thank the Minister. With regard to the Arts Council I support the views that the Minister has taken. I do not believe we could have reappointed the director, notwithstanding the fantastic work that Ms Kennelly did. In the circumstances we had to have thorough review before we could reappoint somebody for five years. I just wanted to say that I fully support the view the Minister took on...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I apologise for being late but I logged in for the opening statement. I welcome the Minister of State. I have a few specific points. The Minister of State mentioned in her opening statement that we will have the national disability strategy in the near future. Could she be more definitive on when it will be published? The Minister of State and I met only recently on the autism...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I would like to see a commitment to implementing the strategy. The timeline for the national disability strategy legislation the Minister of State is talking about could stretch beyond February but the autism innovation strategy and its recommendations for various Departments will fall at the end of February, so we need to have legislation in place prior to that. Several members of the...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: So fully committed funding is in place for those two one-stop shops. Is there a commitment going into the HSE budget for 2026 for the other regional one-stop shops that we have committed to in the programme for Government?

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Once there is a commitment in place to fund them-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I have a couple of points. I know there were a lot of mentions of the former director not being reappointed. I think the Minister was right not to agree to a five-year term subject to all this happening and before everything related to this fiasco was teased out. I think he was right with regard to that. All contracts for delivery of the system were entered into after the appointment of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: My understanding is that it is a higher figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Did we, as a committee, receive any documents from the Arts Council to highlight this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I am sorry. Apologies. Moving back to the issue of people in roles, it was mentioned that two of the management people were in outside organisations and came in from there. Was the senior manager associated with it a Department official or an Arts Council official?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Where are they employed now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: They were senior management and are still in the same role at the same level within the organisation, the same as the person in the Department who got 60 pieces of correspondence and did not pass it up the chain of command to highlight the concerns given by the Arts Council. All of these people are still in roles at the same level as previously, despite over €5 million of a loss to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: In any other organisation or local club - for example, in my GAA club at home where I am involved - if anything is done wrong, you will not be in the same position; you will be gone. There seems to be a situation here where the level of mistakes or mismanagement - I do not know what the right word is - does not seem to matter. You stay at the same level. There are no consequences for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: We have had it but things have not changed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Have we, as committee members, been furnished by the witnesses with all pertinent documentation we need related to this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I advise members of the constitutional requirement that they must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex in order to participate in public meetings. Today's meeting is on housing delivery, service and supply. A critical requirement for the mass delivery of housing and apartment schemes across the country is the infrastructure required to service future...