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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: State Bodies (22 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: My role and that of my Department in relation to tourism lies primarily in the area of national tourism policy development and in securing resources to assist the tourism agencies, Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland, in implementing that policy. The matter raised is an operational matter for Fáilte Ireland. Accordingly, I have referred this question to that agency for direct...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (21 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: Fáilte Ireland maintains tourist accommodation registers as provided for under the Tourist Traffic Acts. These include accommodation types such as hotels, guest houses and youth hostels but do not include a number of tourism accommodation types, including bed and breakfasts. Bed and breakfasts have played a key role in welcoming visitors from around the world to Ireland for more than 50...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Digital Archiving (14 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: The 1926 Census was taken on the night of 18 April 1926 and is the next full set of census records available in Ireland following the 1911 and 1901 censuses. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) published 10 volumes of statistical information gathered in the 1926 census and it can be viewed at the following link www.cso.ie/en/census/censusvolumes1926to1991/historicalrepor ts/ as indeed...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (14 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 345, 346, 347 and 348 together. In 2018, the Government approved the designation of the third Sunday of May each year as the National Famine Commemoration Day, with the arrangements for the holding of the State commemoration on this day or the preceding Saturday, to be decided each year following consultation with the relevant local authority and host...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (14 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: Screen Ireland is the national development agency for Irish filmmaking and the Irish film, television and animation industry, investing in talent, creativity and enterprise. Screen Ireland has an Industry Building Programme Manager based in Los Angeles at present to promote Ireland and Irish companies and Irish talent to the LA based film and television industry. The major film production...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Employment Rights (14 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: I am advised that the information sought by the Deputy, regarding employment terms and conditions and referrals to the SCOPE Section of the Department of Social Protection, are operational matters for the HR Departments of those bodies and the information sought is not something for which I have day-to-day responsibility.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artificial Intelligence (14 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: Online safety is a key government priority. While it is important that technological innovation should be supported, new technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can contribute to misinformation by making it easier for bad actors to create inauthentic or manipulative content. Policy on AI is led by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. At a European level, the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Advertising (14 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: Please see below details in tabular form of advertising expenditure each year since my Department was constituted in its current configuration in September 2020. I am advised that it is not possible to tabulate the expenditure between print media and other media formats, as my Departmental expenditure is on a per-campaign basis, and is allocated via media buying agencies. The figures provided...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (9 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: My Department in its current configuration was established in September 2020. I am advised that details of my Department’s total printing expenditure per annum in the period since then of all Government-sponsored reviews and reports are set out in the table below. I advise the Deputy that I am only in a position to answer for printing expenditure in respect of my Department and I...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (9 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: I refer the Deputy to my reply to his Parliamentary Questions 580 and 581 on 9 April 2024 in which I set out the current position in relation to the development of artists’ workspaces. Research in this area conducted by the Arts Council, Dublin City Council and by my Department in the context of the Basic Income for the Arts pilot research programme and the Night Time Economy, has...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (9 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: The Central Statistics Office collates data on the numbers of people working in different occupations, sourced from different national surveys . While there are not currently any surveys conducted that ask if an individual is working as an artist, a number of different figures are reported relating to the numbers of people working in related areas. The Labour Force Survey publication,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: International Protection (9 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: In relation to the previous Parliamentary Question referenced by the Deputy, it was stated that Tipperary County Council had identified the EU Just Transition Fund as a possible funding source to progress opportunities for Roscrea. With regard to the administration of the EU Just Transition Fund, the Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly (EMRA) is the Managing Authority and Fáilte...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Bodies (8 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: I expect to receive the National Concert Hall’s Annual Report and Financial Statements 2023 in the coming months and within one month of the date on which the 2023 audit certificate is issued by the Comptroller and Auditor General to the National Concert Hall.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff (8 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: I can inform the Deputy that I am advised that no employees within this Department are currently suspended on full pay pending disciplinary investigations. With regard to bodies under the aegis of my Department, the information sought by the Deputy is an operational matter for those bodies and not something for which I have direct day-to-day responsibility.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: European Union (8 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: My Department in its current configuration was established in September 2020. I am advised that in 2023, €4.5 million was provided for in the Revised Estimate Volume under the EU Just Transition Fund and in 2024, €1.5 million was provided for in the Revised Estimate Volume under the EU Just Transition Fund

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (8 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: My Department provides annual funding to the organisation in question to support it in its ongoing operation. While I appreciate the sensitivity of this matter, and I extend to the child in question and her family every best wish for her participation in dancing, as Minister, my Department and I recognise also the autonomy of organisation in relation to the theming and eligibility for entry...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Funding (2 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: Tourism Ireland is funded through the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland. The level of exchequer funding allocated to Tourism Ireland in 2023 from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media amounted to €82,751,500. The amount allocated for 2024 is €74,826,000 . ...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (2 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: The importance of the tourism sector to the Irish economy and communities in every corner of Ireland is well understood and it is recognised that the use of tourist accommodation to support the government’s response to the humanitarian crisis has impacted the sector. In Budget 2024, I secured a total funding of €216 million for the sector which will allow for continued...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff (1 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: All employees of this Department, as part of the the terms of their employment, are obliged to adhere to the Civil Service Code of Standards and Behaviour. Part 2 of this Code, sections 5.1 to 5.4 - 'Civil Servants and Politics’ states that civil servants above clerical level cannot stand for local election. Civil servants in clerical grades and certain non-industrial civil servants...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff (1 May 2024)

Catherine Martin: My Department has had one Accountant (Grade 1) post in the years 2022, 2023 and to date.