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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (19 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can tell the Minister from having met many creatives, some in my family, that only up the road there are better terms and conditions for those creatives who are on film sets in the North than there are for those in this State. Yet with the section 481 relief the Government facilitated the industry once again in the budget. I am not arguing about that - there is a vital need for section...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (19 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister for that. I agree, and I hope the process will have a very short timeframe to ensure that it is delivered. We are in a cost-of-living crisis and a housing crisis. Those creatives, as the Minister calls them, deserve to live and to see the benefit of their work in the same way as in other countries. Will the Minister try to accelerate the process to ensure that there...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (19 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 3. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to comment on the ongoing campaign led by Irish Equity seeking to end the practice of Irish performers and writers facing obstacles such as needing to sign so-called buy-out contracts in order to work in the audiovisual arts, including projects funded by her Department; and if she will ensure that the issuing of funding of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (19 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I ask the Minister to comment on the campaign led by Irish Equity seeking to end the practice of Irish performers and writers facing obstacles such as needing to sign so-called buy-out contracts before they can get any work and the associated loss of earnings.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Teanga (19 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 24. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé i gceist aici Scéim Labhairt na Gaeilge a thabhairt ar ais an bliain seo chugainn; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [45591/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (19 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 56. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to explain where the funding is being repurposed from within her Department's arts and culture programme to fund the increases announced for the Arts Council, Culture Ireland, Screen Ireland, Safe to Create, and Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, given the overall programme budget is only increasing by 0.7% in Budget...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Pleanáil Teanga (19 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 58. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtacaíonn sí leis an bPlean Fáis atá foilsithe ag Conradh na Gaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [45590/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cúrsaí Gaeilge (19 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé i gceist aige straitéis a fhorbairt, nó an cás reatha a fhiosrú, maidir le soláthar cúrsaí tríú leibhéal trí mheán na Gaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [45593/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: An Teanga Gaeilge (19 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil cur chun cinn na litearthachta i nGaeilge mar chuid den Straitéis Litearthachta Fadsaoil do Dhaoine Fásta a sheol sé i mbliana agus ráiteas a thabhairt ar chur chuige an Rialtais maidir le litearthacht a spreagadh sa Ghaeilge. [45592/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 161. To ask the Minister for Finance to explain how the estimated €3 million cost figure was arrived at in relation to the proposed VAT zero-rating of ebooks and audiobooks in budget 2024, including by outlining the number of ebooks and audiobooks sold annually and the average price of ebooks and audiobooks used in calculating this figure. [44957/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 507. To ask the Minister for Health is he aware that as of September 2023 the HSE no longer allocates a GP to medical card holders if they are unable to find in their locality a GP with capacity to take them onto their patient lists; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in some case severely ill patients whose existing GP is retiring and who are dependent on GPs to issue their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 508. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that St. James's Hospital has ended the GP blood clinic (details supplied). [44729/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 509. To ask the Minister for Health is he aware that the Limekiln Lane Health Centre, Dublin, has ended its important development checks on two-year-olds; the steps that are being taken to reopen the service which parents of young children were dependent on; and his views on the matter which is causing stress to parents. [44730/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 512. To ask the Minister for Health the steps a person should take to get medical treatment from a doctor, given that their existing GP is retiring and he has been unable to find another practice in Dublin 8, 10, 12, 20 or 22 that will take them on to ensure continuity of treatment for liver disease and continuity of medication after the current three-month prescription runs out; and if he...

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (12 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá Seanad Éireann tar éis an Bille na hOidhreachta Stairiúla agus Seandálaíochta agus Forálacha Ilghnéitheacha, 2023 a rith gan leasú. Seanad Éireann has passed the Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023 without amendment.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Film Industry (12 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the practice of so-called ‘buy-out’ contracts in the film industry, and the campaign by Irish performers and writers to secure their future residual payments from work on film through stronger implementation of the European Copyright Directive; the action, he plans to take to address their concerns...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: An Teanga Gaeilge (12 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 50. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment an bhfuil aon dul chun cinn déanta maidir le comhráite idir a Roinn agus an feachtas ar son pacáistiú dátheangach sna siopaí; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [44318/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a mater (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44486/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Arís i mbliana, tá buiséad frith-Ghaeltacht os ár gcomhair. I gcomhthéacs na géarchéime atá ann, beidh fíorbheagán tionchair ag an méid atá fógartha don Ghaeilge agus don Ghaeltacht ag an Rialtas chun déileáil leis na deacrachtaí atá os comhair lucht na Gaeilge agus pobal na Gaeltachta ach go háirithe....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (10 Oct 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to introduce the EU Textile EPR Directive of July 2023 for fashion brands in Ireland; whether retailers and producers will be encouraged to work with social enterprise and charitable companies primarily to deliver on the intention to extend the lifetime of textiles; and if he will make a statement...