Results 121-140 of 573 for speaker:Sinéad Gibney

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I have let you answer the question. I am simply trying to say that what this legislation does is take away the legal frameworks and legal guardrails. It allows for policy. Dr. Burke has said that policy is what matters, but unfortunately our concern is that the policy is determined by the Government of the day without any oversight or guardrails around it. That is the issue we have with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (19 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 60. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department have had any engagement at EU level on the ongoing case on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive currently before the Court of Justice of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33160/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Regulation (19 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the means by which the proposed change to the Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence Directive in the EU Omnibus proposals, which will result in the need to assess all tier 1 suppliers for compliance, but no risk-based assessment for the full supply chain, will reduce the regulatory burden on SMEs; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Regulation (19 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 84. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement his Department has had with stakeholders surrounding the proposed change to the Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence Directive in the EU Omnibus proposals, in particular details of engagements with environmental, human rights, and anti-trafficking organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Alcohol Sales (19 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 252. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to elaborate on his position that alcohol labelling would impact competitiveness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33469/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (19 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 253. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the aspects of the proposed Omnibus his Department is supporting and opposing at EU Level, with particular regard for the potential watering down of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive; how he is ensuring better regulation and not deregulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33470/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (19 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 382. To ask the Minister for Health her views that labelling regulations would apply to all alcohol sold in the State, not merely alcohol produced in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33469/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank the witnesses for being here. We had an informative session last night and I have no doubt that today I will be learning a lot. As a new committee member, it is incredibly helpful to hear directly from them all. I have questions for everybody but I might not get to everybody in my first round. I will start with Virgin Media. The issue of funding was spoken about. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Where should the balance lie between the support of public service broadcasting at RTÉ and TG4 in comparison with public service broadcasting done by other channels and producers of content?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Related to that, how are we able to ensure workers' rights are respected by organisations in receipt of State funding that are not under the aegis of the State? Plenty of members of the committee are aware that there are many issues with those bodies that still need to be dealt with but obviously there is even less scrutiny or oversight of bodies that are not under the aegis of the State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: While I appreciate that Virgin Media Television has the same obligations as any corporate entity, we are aware of many issues with bogus self-employment, for example. Has that issue arisen for the company in ways that it wants to tackle?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Does that mean at the same time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Does that provide for adequate workers' rights given the issues that have arisen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Ms Ní Chaoindealbháin is happy enough with it. I have some questions now for Screen Producers Ireland. I understand from the opening statements that the organisation welcomes the provisions for independent commissioning and hopes the figure increases beyond 25%. I have some specific questions on that. First, in an ideal world, what proportion of that funding would go to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Specifically on that, does Ms Kirby have a figure in mind on what that might stretch to over a period of years? What might the balance be between in-house versus independent production?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: What would the balance between in-house versus independent commissioning look like in a healthy environment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: That has thrown me because I had a load of questions that I was going to fire quickly. I put out a question last night which has just yielded some interesting answers and I would like to hear from the witnesses. It concerns their view of big tech. We have talked a little bit about how the advertising landscape has shifted. Do the witnesses support the view that platforms should be...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Middle East (18 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance if Irish sovereign wealth and investment funds will divest their holdings in Israel, the illegally occupied territories in Palestine and the Golan Heights, in light of his statement on the matter in February 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33155/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Middle East (18 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will direct the Ireland strategic investment fund to disperse its current holdings in Israeli sovereign debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33156/25]