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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (5 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: 364. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if projects in south County Monaghan received funding under the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme for 2021; and if so, if she will provide the details of same. [43297/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (5 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: 365. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if projects in south County Monaghan received funding under the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme for 2022; and if so, if she will provide the details of same. [43298/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (5 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: 366. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if projects in County Cavan are to benefit from the community centres investment fund – new builds measure 2023 and if so, to provide details of the project and amount to be received. [43299/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (5 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: 368. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if projects in south County Monaghan are to benefit from the community centres investment fund – new builds measure 2023; and if so, to provide details of the project and amount to be received. [43301/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (5 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: 367. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if projects in County Cavan benefited from the community centres investment fund – improvement and refurbishment of existing community centres 2022; and if so, to provide details of the project and amount received. [43300/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (5 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: 369. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if projects in south County Monaghan benefited from the community centres investment fund – improvement and refurbishment of existing community centres 2022; and if so, to provide details of the project and the amount received. [43302/23]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: We have received apologies for Senator Warfield. I also wish to advise members of the formal substitutions for today's meeting. Senator Garret Ahearn is substituting for Senator Micheál Carrigy while Senator Marie Sherlock is substituting for Senator Annie Hoey. The meeting has been convened with the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to discuss the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister very much for that opening statement. I will now turn to my colleagues, who have nine minutes each. I would appreciate it if they would stick to that. They may use their own discretion as to whether they want to make statements or ask questions but they should remember they only have nine minutes.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: Final, Senator.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: I call Senator Sherlock.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: On that we have to conclude. I thank Senator Cassells. I am now going to call-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: Briefly, Minister.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: Very quickly, Senator Cassells.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: Okay. Deputy Cannon is next. He has nine minutes-plus at this rate.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: Thanks Deputy Cannon, particularly for sticking to the time. Senator Ahearn is next.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister and the Deputy very much. I have to move on. I have given the Deputy his full allocation of time, and more beyond that.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: It is my turn now. Then we will have time for a quickfire round at the end. I will pick up on some of the points some of my colleagues made and tease them out a little further. Senator Byrne raised the issue of the commercial arm of RTÉ versus its public service broadcasting obligation. It is problematic that there is no clear delineation of where funding goes. It is all mixed into...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: I know that is to its advantage, but when it all goes in together, we do not have sight of the clear delineation between the two and how moneys are spent.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: Okay, so you are happy with that aspect of things. Obviously, Minister, you would have listened in very attentively to all the hearings we held. As you know, my colleagues put many hours not just into committee meetings but also into the preparation, which was enormous. The secretariat put many hours into all that. When Ms Doherty came in here and I asked her about her knowledge of what...