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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (22 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the members of the MEAI, including Mr. Butler, for joining us today. The MEAI has become an extraordinarily effective and powerful voice for a sector, the Irish music industry, that was pretty much voiceless. It emerged from the ashes of the pandemic and was crucial in seeking support from the Government for the sector throughout the pandemic. Thankfully, many artists emerged...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (22 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Maybe you have already answered the question, sorry.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (22 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: This young person does as well.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (22 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Ultimately, rather than seeking to impose our musical preferences on broadcasters, which I am somewhat uncomfortable with, why not develop the ecosystem, supported by the State to the greatest possible extent, from where the artists emerge of their own accord when they are given the necessary supports? Rather than banging their heads off the wall after two or three years of creating good...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (22 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: It is important to stress that, as Mr. Conboy said, it is a pilot. It is a really important experiment in determining how best we can extend this to well beyond 2,000 people.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (22 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the witnesses again for being here. It is really important to hear directly from people with a great deal of knowledge and experience from working in the industry for a very long time. It is really helpful to us and informs our opinions and ambitions as to how best to do this. I do not know if I can speak for all of us but I believe there is a certain consensus emerging around a...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (22 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: That would be great.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has any plans to introduce a transfer/relocation scheme for post primary teachers, bearing in mind the need to make teaching an attractive career option; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50054/23]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank all of the witnesses for coming before the committee and for the remarkable work they do in nurturing and enriching communities throughout the country in their artistic endeavours. It is mind-boggling what they achieve with very limited resources. I thank them for that. This is an area about which I am very passionate. My wife and I ran an 80-seat theatre for five years until...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Correct.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: A home.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Is going up?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Will Mr. McIntyre explain why that is happening?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I will make a final point. What you are setting out to do is to create a cultural ecosystem at community level. If the talent is to emerge, which talent the Arts Council may support, it will emerge through that ecosystem. If it is not there, you are losing out on so much opportunity. I remember as a teenager seeing Colm Wilkinson singing in Jesus Christ Superstarin Loughrea with the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: That is good to hear.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (14 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: 99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he intends to open a new round of the Safe Routes to Schools Programme, bearing in mind the large number of schools that have yet to be supported through the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49452/23]

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I will finish on this and I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for her support. I am working with a community in a small village in south Galway called Kilcolgan. This is essentially a village divided by a national secondary route. TII, incidentally, should also reflect on its role in road safety. I asked our local roads engineer to consider the installation of a pedestrian crossing in a...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister of State for being here today and for his unstinting commitment to making our roads safer. As he pointed out in his opening statement, we are in a crisis. That is the only way of describing it. In three out of the past four years, we have gone backwards. There have been 155 deaths this year and recent RSA statistics tell us that, in the past seven years, 1,600...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Valuation Office (24 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: 335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify if, on the basis that the Valuation Act 2015 sets out two conditions for the exemption to apply to charities, namely, that the organisation must be a charitable organisation and the property on which exemption is being claimed must be occupied for charitable purposes and not for private profit; and if an...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank Mr. Brendan Quinn who has done Trojan work in assembling this petition of 26,000 signatures, 9,000 of which emanate from my county of Galway, and Mr. John Mulligan who is another stalwart campaigner for common sense and for the reinstatement of a vital piece of public infrastructure connecting Athenry to Sligo. It has lain idle for 40 years, bringing no benefit whatsoever to the...