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Broadcasting (Oversight of RTÉ Accounts) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachtaí who contributed. I thank the Minister and Minister of State for their responses. While I appreciate everything we received from the Minister and Minister of State this evening, there is a simple thing being lost with regard to the Bill that has been presented. The Bill simply puts RTÉ accounts under the oversight of the Comptroller and...

Broadcasting (Oversight of RTÉ Accounts) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I hope the Minister will withdraw his amendment killing this Bill and support it as it stands. We ask those on the Government benches to also support this Bill as it would do what all parties agree needs to be done and bring RTÉ under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General. I have read the media reports that the media...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (22 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to liaise with Louth/Meath ETB to increase the number of apprenticeship courses taught by LMETB in Louth and to locate apprenticeship training courses in Drogheda/south Louth, given the huge need for people qualified in trades and to make apprenticeships geographically accessible to a wider pool of people; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The Government never built any.

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I commence tonight by mentioning and paying tribute to 14-year-old disability rights campaigner Cara Darmody, who began her 50 hour sleep-out protest outside Leinster House this morning. She is here to battle for her two brothers who have autism and profound intellectual disabilities and for the thousands more children like them whom this Government is failing. Despite its denials, it is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I will take a moment to mention Kyran Durnin who should be celebrating his ninth birthday with his family and loved ones today but who instead is subject to a major Garda investigation to try to determine his whereabouts and whether he is even still alive. I know Kyran's family is holding a candlelit vigil in Drogheda this evening. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. There is a need...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I echo my colleague's sentiments on Horse Racing Ireland. I read through the note, which is quite detailed, but the more the detail goes on, it poses more questions. Is the historic loan of €1.6 million included in the grant funding of €12.5 million earlier or is that separate?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Despite the historic €1.6 million loan, why in 2020 did it go further with the €9 million? There are a lot of grey areas in that, particularly with the stringent criteria that is around the €1.6 million in respect of key timelines and criteria for repayments. It goes as far as to set out what might happen if the repayments are not met by the end of 2026, going into the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: There are questions that still need to be asked here of Sport Ireland despite a note accounting for a change in accounting policy and the ring-fencing of grant aid. The underutilisation of €4 million in 2022 and the further underutilisation of nearly €6 million in 2023 involve staggering amounts of money that could have been, and probably should have been, fed down the chain to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Local Community Safety Partnerships (15 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the establishment of local community safety partnerships in Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24264/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I congratulate the Cathaoirleach on his appointment. I am a Sinn Féin TD for Louth, based in Drogheda, which is the largest town in the county and will be the next city of the country. I am delighted to be on this committee. I come to it with various levels of experience. I sat on the board of the Droichead Arts Centre in Drogheda for a number of years and, as I have three degrees in...

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Today, we put forward a detailed motion on housing and critical infrastructure. Examples were given and statements from bodies involved in the delivery of homes, such as Uisce Éireann, the Irish Home Builders' Association and the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, were given, but the Government's amendment to this motion is a rinse and repeat of its response to all motions in this...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The Arts Council's €7 million IT project failure and RTÉ's €3.6 million IT project failure are the headlines, instead of €10.3 million being spent wisely and well. Let us think of all the sports clubs, musicians and arts and cultural bodies that could have done so much with more than €10 million. It simply cannot continue, and I commend the Minister on his...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 91. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details from all agencies under his remit of capital projects that cost more than €500,000 and were either abandoned or materially failed to be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22926/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: This question is to ask the Minister to provide details for all agencies under his Department's remit of capital projects costing more than €500,000 that were either abandoned or materially failed to be delivered, and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I commend the Minister on instructing his Department to initiate this exercise and on providing transparency regarding what may be a huge waste of public money by multiple bodies under the aegis of his Department. Unfortunately for him, these wastes of money seem to follow him. When he was previously Minister with responsibility for the OPW, there were issues with money being wasted, such...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I echo the previous sentiments of my colleagues in congratulating the Cathaoirleach on his appointment as Chair of this committee. Everybody knows that this is probably one of the most powerful committees of the 28 political panels. On a personal level, I am particularly honoured to be appointed by our party leader to this committee, as I am sure is everyone around the table here. I assure...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 16. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on any possible movement to provide a new railway station on the north side of Drogheda, considering the huge population growth on Drogheda's north side along the PANCR; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22503/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 122. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a timeframe for the publication of the large-scale sports infrastructure fund reserve list for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22924/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 138. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a timeframe for the next round of the large-scale sports infrastructure fund grants opening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22925/25]