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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank each of the witnesses for their powerful and informative contributions, which will most certainly aid us in our work on this newly established committee. I will go back to AkiDwa, if the witnesses do not mind. I am sorry to be focusing the spotlight on them. In my previous role working with Irish Aid, I was very fortunate to meet a wonderful lady, Ifrah Ahmed, who has done a lot of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: The programme for Government rightly commits to the development of our rural towns and villages. The Office of the Planning Regulator is engaging with a number of local authorities as they prepare their county development plans for the future. There is an ongoing conflict, though, whereby those local authorities are being asked to encourage people to move into our towns and villages even...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Safety (6 Apr 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the development of an online portal for the submission of video footage of dangerous driving, as committed to in Vision Zero, the road safety strategy for 2021-2030. [18732/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (5 Apr 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she intends to begin the development of sports halls in existing schools in cases in which such schools have no indoor sports facilities or very limited facilities. [17656/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (22 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 685. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when was the last review of the level of allowances paid to foster parents; and if he plans to carry out another review in view of the increased cost of living. [14581/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (10 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of her plans to fund the development of indoor sports facilities in cases in which schools are lacking such facilities with specific reference to a school (details supplied) given the ongoing concerns regarding childhood obesity and inactivity. [13459/22]

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (9 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister, the Minister of State and their officials for joining us. I also thank each and every one of them for the work they did during the pandemic to support the sector. What lessons can we learn from the engagement, as a result of the experience of supporting a sector that was particularly badly impacted by the pandemic and following the establishment of new links with...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (9 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister. The creation of a universal basic income for artists is a truly groundbreaking move on the Minister's part. Everyone, in his or her time as Minister, seeks to do exactly that, in other words, make a significant change that would impact on the lives of people long after he or she has exited the role. I think of the work President Michael D. Higgins did when he was...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (9 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (9 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I have one supplementary question. In early December, the Minister announced a most welcome €50 million package of support for the live performance sector. Does she have a breakdown at this point of how that has been expended? What is left in the pot? How does she intend to distribute that to those who are still in a very difficult place? We always made the point, and the...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (9 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister for the additional scheme announced yesterday. I will make one final comment on it. My understanding is that the vast majority of people who succeeded in securing LPSS support will automatically migrate to this scheme and will not have to make a new application. Is that correct?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (9 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: That is most welcome. We need to look forensically at how best to support the artists and technicians the Minister mentioned earlier, namely, those who switch on the lights and are not seen. It is important that all the work we do through the LPSS and the live performance restart grant scheme, LPRGS, is focused solely on that. Artists cannot survive without venues. The two have a symbiotic...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (9 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (9 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: It is important we clarify a matter because misinformation is perhaps creeping out into the public domain as to how the LPRGS is going to work. If I am a venue owner in Athlone and I secured funding under the LPSS, the maximum grant under which was, as far as I recall, in the order of €100,000 at the time, will the Minister clarify what I was required to do to make the case for that...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (9 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (9 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I have a short question. I thank the Minister for State for being so proactive in securing this level of funding. I do not need to tell him the impact such funding has on local communities in terms of the provision of sports facilities is phenomenal. Every cent we invest in local communities on the development of sports facilities is leveraged. I am sure some analysis has been done on...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (9 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister of State.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (8 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite funding for the construction of a sports hall at a school (details supplied). [12380/22]