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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: ...each programme area. It is proposed that questions will be taken as members indicate for today's session, as we consider each programme area. Is that agreed? Agreed. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or any official, either by name or in such a...

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...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (25 Jan 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: ...regard to development of the region they represent. I stress that all of these people are here on a voluntary basis. They have paid their own way to get to Dublin, and have been working for a long time to deliver what they see is an absolutely logical use of a badly misused piece of national transport infrastructure. I have huge respect for Deputy Kenny. I think he is a superb...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (5 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: ...also outlined that a funding package of €611 million was secured, which is again most welcome work on the part of the Minister for PSO and Local Link services. I have been arguing for quite a long time now that the PSO support needs to be extended to an operator. The Minister of State has outlined that there are two operators on the service already: Citylink and Healy Bus. Why...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (5 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: ...the Ceann Comhairle for allowing this Topical Issue to be taken and the Minister of State for being here at such a late hour. I am delighted to bring proceedings to a close. It has been a very long day in Dáil Éireann. This is a major issue for the people of Loughrea town. It has been for a considerable period ever since July 2021, when Bus Éireann decided to...

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...

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

Ciarán Cannon: ...next three to five years to develop something really impactful. Obviously all of us who have the west of Ireland's interests at heart would dearly love to see an enhancement of our rail services all along the western rail corridor but I do not see that happening for at least the next 15 to 20 years. I want to be able to walk away from Leinster House and say I worked with people like...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: ...been undermined by what has happened at RTÉ? How does she propose to overcome that difficulty? Does she intend to continue engaging with her Cabinet colleagues to seek the development of a long-term, sustainable funding model and has her case or her capacity to deliver on that been undermined by the issues at RTÉ?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán on the 2023 Work Programme (27 Sep 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: ...content for Irish audiences. I am a former Minister of State with responsibility for our wonderful diaspora throughout the world. That community has been consistently neglected for a very long time. We are in a world where we now have instantaneous communications. For example, my son living in Philadelphia regularly tunes in to watch hurling matches in east Galway and does so with...

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: ...the region of €500 million at this point. I ask this question not in jest; I am deadly serious in asking it. Has it ever been considered why RTÉ has to locate itself in Dublin? In this country, we have a long-standing problem in that all of Irish public life is very much focused on this place where we now sit on the eastern side of the island. There are numerous other...

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

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, for being here. This has been a very long-running saga in the west, and in my constituency of Galway East in particular. What is deeply disturbing for those of us who are ambitious about the future of east Galway, and in particular its towns and villages, is that there is a piece of public infrastructure that has now been left to rot for...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: ...that he had never heard of and not to the company he was seeking to provide the services to, namely, Renault? Why did he process that invoice, him being, one would assume, a responsible director of a long-standing company? In processing that false invoice, did he ever consider for a moment the huge reputational damage that might arise from such processing to a broadcaster that is held in...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Okay. Can we stop there? Mr. Kelly has been touting that line all day long.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I lost my dad a long time ago but there is one line that I will never forget. When I would come home from school when I had been misbehaving with an excuse, for example, “Johnny next to me told me to do it”, his question always was “If Johnny told you to put your hand in the fire, would you put it in?” Mr. Kelly cannot suggest for a moment that a credible answer...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Can I stop Mr. Kelly there? He has been mentioning the new sponsor opportunity all day long.

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: RTÉ, the entity, issued a statement last week that long-term agreements, LTAs, are not in breach of competition law. Did the witnesses seek legal advice on this before they made that statement and can we see it if they did?

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

Ciarán Cannon: ...element of Noel's very large body of policy work that I want to focus on today is that of science and technology. Noel Treacy was a genuine visionary and knew where the future of this country lay long before most others. I have been privileged to work over the past decade with Bernard Kirk of the Camden Education Trust and formerly of the Galway Education Centre. From long conversations...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: ...are potentially defamatory in relation to an identifiable person or entity, witnesses will be directed to discontinue their remarks and it is imperative they comply with any such direction. Members are also reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise, or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (25 Apr 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: ...the development of amenities that benefit the local community in terms of people's health and well-being. Two particular projects are under way in east Galway right now, one of which is at the Long Point on Loughrea Lake and the other in Portumna at Lough Derg, which will come to fruition fairly shortly and be of immense benefit. How can that good work be replication throughout the...