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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (7 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I do not take issue with the Minister of State but it is as I expected from the Department. It said a request for a PE hall does not come within the remit of the additional school accommodation scheme, yet it did this 21 times in 21 other schools and in a school just 10 km away from Seamount. Why it decided to single out Seamount for special treatment in denying it this facility is a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to hold a referendum to extend voting rights in presidential elections to our citizens living abroad. When will that referendum happen? We are hopelessly out of step with the European Union and the rest of the world in extending any kind of democratic opportunity to our citizens living in Northern Ireland and across the world. These are...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: That is 6,000 employed in moderation.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank each of the witnesses for being here and having the trust and confidence in their systems to allow them to be scrutinised in the public domain, something that people in X, or Twitter, are obviously not happy to do. I am sure the public policy team from X is watching these proceedings as we speak. I invite them to come before us, a public committee, in a fully transparent manner. I...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: What about Meta?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Okay. We are now moving into a space where even something we may have trusted in the past to engage with photo and video content, namely our two eyes, cannot be relied on anymore. It is not possible. I have a pretty serious fear around the deepfake technology that is becoming so advanced and advancing every day in its capacity to do fairly extraordinary things with video in particular....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: May I ask one very brief question?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Something that always fascinates me around the issue of misinformation and hate speech is who in the organisations present gets to decide what is hate speech, as opposed to an impassioned speech from a protestor at the end of O'Connell Street, or somebody saying Ireland is at war.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: These are really critical decisions. Who in the organisations gets to make them?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Who is it eventually escalated to, if there is indecision about whether this is just somebody making an impassioned speech or somebody who is actively, deliberately engaging in incitement to hatred?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Yes, and it needs to be somebody who has an in-depth knowledge of the political landscape of whatever country or region the particular content is being shared in. That is important as well. I thank the Cathaoirleach.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: This motion is a cynical, clumsy attempt to gain political capital from a tragic incident. Thankfully, the Irish people are beginning to see Sinn Féin for what it really is, namely, a party linked to criminality that has repeatedly sought to undermine our State and institutions and one that applauded those who took the life of one of our gardaí. It is no secret that officials in...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: -----in seeking to remove a Minister with genuine justice at the heart of her work every day.

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

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister of State. The Ceann Comhairle outlined earlier the tendency at times for departmental officials to abdicate responsibility in certain policy areas and I think this opening statement attempts to do that at the very beginning. It clarifies that the Minister for Transport and his officials are not involved in the day-to-day operation of public transport services, but they...

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

Ciarán Cannon: I thank 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...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Athenry town and its environs are thankfully experiencing major population growth. However, it is putting major pressure on enrolment in the post-primary schools in the town. Arising from accurate data pulled together by school leaders in Athenry town, we now know we are potentially going to have a shortage of up to 100 secondary school places next September. This was flagged to the...

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...

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 wish to make a point about the work which the Minister of State, Deputy Byrne, is doing in the area of sports capital. All of us in this room have seen the extraordinary leveraging of community life, endeavour and vitality that arises from the sports capital fund. It unlocks much more in fundraising, hard work and commitment locally. The sports capital model unlocked that sporting...

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: We would all support that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: This week we have seen something completely unprecedented in Irish politics whereby Reporters Without Borders and our own National Union of Journalists, NUJ, felt obliged to write to the leader of a political party, Sinn Féin, expressing their alarm about a series of legal actions taken by Sinn Féin members against journalists. The letter states: "... the number of legal actions...