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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)

Charlie McConalogue: I felt very much like the goalkeeper in the contest for a while when most of the play is up the other end of the pitch. The Deputy rightly outlined the LSSIF. It was an important piece relating to the overall funding infrastructure that the State provides. Prior to 2019, there had not been anything filling that space. There were many projects of a reasonable scale throughout the country...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I acknowledge the Deputy’s ongoing advocacy on behalf of sporting organisations in his constituency. We expect to open the sports facilities fund, which is for clubs up to a maximum of €200,000, next spring with announcements next autumn. It normally runs every two years. We have only ever run two iterations of the large-scale sports infrastructure fund, the first in 2019 and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (20 May 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Deputy. I am happy to take this matter on behalf of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy James Browne. The Deputy made a valid point, and I thank him for raising this matter. On 25 April 2023, the Government approved additional measures under the Housing for All action plan to incentivise the activation of increased housing supply and to help...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (8 May 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: It has been wonderful in recent years to see the strong increase in participation across many sports and how that has been driven forward and facilitated by the wonderful volunteer ethos at local level in terms of organising and facilitating so much sports activity through clubs on an ongoing basis. There is also great work in terms of leveraging sports capital grants and developing those...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (8 May 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I would certainly be delighted to visit because it sounds like one of the prime examples of what is possible and how, by collaborating, we can maximise the impact of this investment. That is something we want to see more of across the country and, anywhere there is an opportunity to do that, to back it. We are also looking at how we can work in as strong a way as possible through...

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

Charlie McConalogue: Sport Ireland, which is funded by my Department, is the statutory body with responsibility for the development of sport, including the allocation of funding under its various programmes. It also has responsibility for the development of strategies for increasing participation in sport, including participation by women and girls. Sport Ireland does not directly commission media or...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (29 Apr 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I understand that Údarás na Gaeltachta is undertaking a broad range of initiatives to develop Gaeltacht tourism. An tÚdarás is focusing on four main strategic objectives to develop Gaeltacht tourism. Firstly, to support private and community-based enterprises in developing high-end slow tourism experiences that encourage longer stays and higher spending while...

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

Charlie McConalogue: The development of football academies is fundamentally a matter for the FAI, which, like all National Governing Bodies of sport (NGBs), is an independent, autonomous body that is responsible for the organisation and development of its own sport, including player development. While the FAI has sought significant State funding to support its academies' development plans, it is important to...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (6 Mar 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Údarás na Gaeltachta has informed me that the organisation is focusing on four main strategic objectives to develop Gaeltacht tourism. The first strategic objective is to support private and community-based enterprises in developing high-end slow tourism experiences that encourage longer stays and higher spending while preserving authentic cultural and linguistic heritage. ...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (18 Feb 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: ...in the language, the Gaeilge365 concept envisages the ten-fold increase in the opportunities for the active use of Irish in the domains of public services, community groups, sports clubs, the work environment, cultural settings and local neighbourhood settings. My officials are currently evaluating this application in the context of the resources available to my Department in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (7 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department is committed to ensuring that a highly skilled, motivated and efficient workforce is in place to meet on-going business needs. Workforce planning is a key tool in enabling my Department to forecast its current and future staffing needs. As a management function, it drives the full range of HR activities including recruitment, deployment, performance, learning and development....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (6 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The implementation of the Bovine TB Eradication Strategy 2021-2030 is overseen by the Bovine TB Stakeholders Forum along with support from three working groups – a Scientific group, an Implementation Working Group and a Finance Group to ensure all aspects of the Strategy are addressed. The Bovine TB Stakeholders Forum and its working groups comprise representatives from across the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...do not have the same predictability is in planting. We have much more predictability over felling, although there is not the same cost associated with it. We have overbudgeted for the last two to four years because we have been budgeting based on meeting the target but we have not been meeting it. As the Deputy knows, the new forestry scheme we have brought in is very attractive and...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Ensuring farmers get the service they are entitled to from the Department and in terms of the schemes we run is something I take very seriously. The CAP programme last year and all of the schemes operated in a good manner, with payments made on the dates we set out, with the exception of ACRES. ACRES has been a challenge but the other schemes have worked. For the first year the CAP worked...

Seanad: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (23 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Senators Lombard and Sherlock for their contributions. The point I will make is that both of these are industries with significant employment and this fund is very important to both those industries in underpinning them. Other countries which are in the lead like we are, in particular as regards the horse racing industry, are also underpinned by national funding. In terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (17 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The implementation of the Bovine TB Eradication Strategy 2021-2030 is overseen by the Bovine TB Stakeholders Forum along with support from three working groups – a Scientific group, an Implementation Working Group and a Finance Group to ensure all aspects of the Strategy are addressed. The Bovine TB Stakeholders Forum and its working groups comprise of representatives from across the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: This is the biggest challenge by far in the context of the scientific advice for this year, which is the 22% in terms of the amount of quota reduction that should be there in terms of the overall stock for all mackerel fish caught next year. As the Deputy says, it is our most important fishery. We have 50% of the EU quota for mackerel, but it is a shared stock and it does travel. It is one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Horse Racing Ireland and Rásaíocht Con Éireann work very well with the funding that is allocated. They administer it very well and effectively. There have been challenges with the sport horse sector, working through Horse Sport Ireland in recent years. It is known the previous board stood down 18 months or more ago. I stepped in to appoint a new board to try to bring the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: In that respect, I welcome the Commission's recent proposal to amend the 2012 regulation on measures to address unsustainable fishing of shared stocks by non-EU countries. Moving on to the sustainability impact assessment itself, an open consultation process was initiated on 16 September, whereby stakeholders were asked to submit their comments and observations on the ICES scientific advice...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax (1 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Deputies for the response and the contributions to the debate. This is a positive step forward and obviously will affect many ordinary, normal people. The threshold is now increasing for a child inheriting from a parent, from what would have €335,000 to €400,000. There are lots of very ordinary people, whether it be a farm, a home or a dwelling house, where they...