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Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: Is anybody else indicating? No. I want to follow on from what Deputy Griffin identified as an ongoing challenge for hospitality, particularly in rural locations and places along the western seaboard and the Wild Atlantic Way. We still are somewhat in the dark on how we are going to deal with the self-catering conundrum that presents to us right now and has presented to us for a very long...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank our colleagues from the Department for being with us today. I do not know if I have questions or comments for the Minister. Perhaps it is a combination of both. Obviously, it is exceptionally important that our national broadcaster continues to function as it should in creating a reliable output of public service media. One issue that arose during all the questioning in this...

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...

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

Ciarán Cannon: I have additional information to bring to the conversation. So far, the Department of Transport has invested €375,000 in a feasibility, planning and design study. Consultants have been recruited to carry out the feasibility, planning and design study on the section of the greenway from Athenry to Milltown so there is already significant investment on the part of the Department of...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: ...and every one of the witnesses for joining us in what Ms Ní Raghallaigh described as a special sitting reflective of the gravity of the situation in which RTÉ finds itself right now. We are here to work as best we can in partnership with them in restoring trust in RTÉ and ensuring the future of our public service broadcaster. As it has rightly been pointed out, we have a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Strategic Infrastructure (12 Jul 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister of State for that very comprehensive response. I am aware of, and am very pleased with, the significant investment already committed to the development of the greenway from Athenry to Milltown. Those of us campaigning for that greenway like to describe it as "The Quiet Man" greenway because it allows for users to cycle through Ballyglunin railway station, which featured...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank everyone for joining us again this week. I know how difficult this has been for everyone on a personal level. RTÉ's mission statement describes an ambition to achieve what is described as "one RTÉ", one collaborative team working in the same direction to serve the needs of the public in regard to public service broadcasting. There is not one RTÉ. There are two...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (25 May 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: ...Ireland and where community really matters. We do not reminisce about the spirit of the meitheal; we experience and live the meitheal every day of our lives. Noel Treacy embodied that spirit and worked throughout his career to protect and nurture it. Noel was born in the village of Clough, across the fields from my mother's family. In fact, from speaking recently to my Aunt Breeda, I...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of the Media Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I apologise for my late arrival. I was at a meeting that went on far too long. I have two quick questions. Eímear Noone is a neighbour and friend of mine. We in east Galway are all exceptionally proud of her for what she has achieved and of her potential to achieve even more in the future. It is extraordinary that she and her husband have now built a superb recording studio in...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future Business Model Plans and Long-term Vision for the Media Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: ..., that was some of the most powerful and thought-provoking testimony that I have heard or seen in this room since I became a member of this committee. I thank all the witnesses for causing us to reflect on how we think, speak, act and perform as legislators working as best we can in all of their interests. It has been an eye-opening, ear-opening and mind-opening session. Pretty much...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: We can be exceptionally proud of the work we have achieved as a country in educational attainment. The route presented to my dad for education when compared with that presented to my son are such that it is like two different countries. We have crossed many extraordinary milestones in that regard but there is one remaining milestone to be crossed, which relates to the provision of further...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank TII for this very informative report. I would really like to see TII doing more work of this nature so we can make really well-informed decisions as to how we could have a more sustainable and safer road network in the future. I thank TII for doing this really important work. I have some quick questions and observations. The report makes the case that by reducing speed limit...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Governance and Related Issues in Cycling Ireland: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the witnesses for joining us today and for the exceptional work they are doing in developing the sport and the pursuit of cycling on the island of Ireland. I asked that the witnesses appear before us today to address the significant breakdown in trust that occurred as the result of the actions of an admittedly small group of people within the organisation in how they approached the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I have a couple of very quick observations. First, I sincerely congratulate the Minister on getting the basic income for the pilot relating to artists. This scheme is truly groundbreaking and will set our country apart in terms of how we value art and those who create it. I echo the concerns, which the Minister addressed comprehensively, about how the basic income for the arts, BIA,...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: ...for their enlightening presentation. The questions I will ask are based on the fact that the witnesses operate at the cutting edge of the promotion of Irish culture internationally. I want to get the witnesses' wisdom and observations on a couple of things. Video games were mentioned. I refer to what we are trying to do to drive job creation and innovation in our regions. We recently...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: ...comprehensive opening statement. An area I have been fascinated by for the last number of years is that of women in STEM. There has been a lot of excellent research done in this country on how to encourage greater female participation in STEM subjects and, ultimately, in STEM careers. CoderDojo has done some wonderful research and Accenture did an excellent piece of research about five...

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...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen (23 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I welcome Ms Haugen and thank her for her work in drawing back the veil and allowing us to get some degree of insight into how companies like Facebook and many others work. I happen to believe social media, in the main, is a force for good. The people who founded most of our global social media companies did not set out to do societal harm.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Future of Media in Ireland: Discussion (16 Jun 2021)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the members of the commission for joining us. Looking at my laptop screen here, I am filled with confidence about the calibre and the quality of the people that we have chosen to do the work of the commission. I look forward to its deliberations. Fine Gael is finalising a submission that it will make to the commission on foot of significant engagement with local media practitioners,...