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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 (Supplementary) (6 Nov 2024)

Thomas Byrne: That money has been allocated for drawdowns that were expected this year. Those are really grants from 2020. It is not realistic that anything we announced the other day will draw down before the end of the year from the LSSIF funding that we announced this year. It is money from the previous year. It is a matter for the Minister with the overall subheads, so maybe she wants to answer it....

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Supplementary) (6 Nov 2024)

Thomas Byrne: That is not money from sport today. It is money not drawn on previous projects, which is part of the issue, and part of the reason we brought in the use it or lose it clause. On Kinsale in particular, I visited the centre with the Acting Chairman so I am familiar with the project. We said that all valid applications will be placed on the reserve list. I can confirm that the Kinsale...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Supplementary) (6 Nov 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: As I said, Cork County Council disappointingly did not put it forward as one of its projects. Is it too late for it to come on board?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Supplementary) (6 Nov 2024)

Thomas Byrne: That was part of the application matrix and the scoring system. On the exact mechanics, I suppose there will be engagement between the Department and the associations or clubs. That will realistically be after Christmas. There is no point saying they will hear soon. There is other work to do, but the Kinsale application is valid and that is good news. They will be on the reserve list.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Supplementary) (6 Nov 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I move to tourism. I see an allocation towards strategic tourism. It is a sector I have slight concerns about. I am from west Cork, where tourism and hospitality are the biggest indigenous employers. They are finding it difficult and are going through a tough time at the moment. Footfall from different parts of Europe appears to be down. Footfall from the UK appears to be down as well....

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Supplementary) (6 Nov 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Does the Minister or Minister of State have any further comments at this point?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Supplementary) (6 Nov 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I will not be at the second session, so I add to the Minister's comments about the clerks to the committee and the staff here at the committee. They have been phenomenal and went above and beyond, especially during that period in 2023 when it was all day, every day and weekends. That has to be acknowledged. That concludes the consideration of Vote 33. In accordance with Standing Order 101,...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Message to Dáil (6 Nov 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with the United Arab Emirates: Motions (6 Nov 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We will also be supporting this motion. Having an extradition treaty with the UAE is desirable. It is galling to see individuals who have wreaked havoc living in comfort in another jurisdiction and also operating without any sanction. These are people who in some cases are household names. However, we must remember that individual cases do not make good law. That has often been said,...

Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with the United Arab Emirates: Motions (6 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think anybody is going to be sorry if people involved in violent criminality are extradited from the United Arab Emirates. This arrangement facilitates that extradition and the bringing to justice of people involved in violent criminality. However, to put it very mildly, I have grave concerns about the UAE's human rights credentials. I see in the Minister's speech, which I have...

Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with the United Arab Emirates: Motions (6 Nov 2024)

Brendan Howlin: The growth of criminal gangs operating out of this jurisdiction is a phenomenon that has developed incredible legs in recent decades. The reach of these criminal gangs goes well beyond our borders and the scale now rivals some of the biggest international cartels we have read about in other jurisdictions down through the decades, such as the Mafia or criminal cartels operating out of Mexico...

Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with the United Arab Emirates: Motions (6 Nov 2024)

Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with the United Arab Emirates: Motions (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I remind Members that there are two separate motions being debated in the slot, namely, the motion regarding the proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the treaty of mutual legal assistance in criminal matters between Ireland and the UAE, and the motion regarding the proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the treaty on extradition between Ireland and the UAE. These motions...

Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with the United Arab Emirates: Motions (6 Nov 2024)

Helen McEntee: I move: That Dáil Éireann, pursuant to Article 29.5.2º of Bunreacht na hÉireann, approves the terms of the Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between Ireland and the United Arab Emirates, signed on 21st October, 2024, a copy of which was laid before Dáil Éireann on 23rd October, 2024. I thank the Ceann Comhairle and the House for...

Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with the United Arab Emirates: Motions (6 Nov 2024)

Pa Daly: Organised crime and its leaders should not enjoy impunity anywhere in the world. Such figures obviously attempt to keep moving to evade international justice, but the Emirates has good connections with the west and the east. It has a large diaspora and English is widely spoken. I visited it myself. My wife worked there a number of years ago. It has therefore been an ideal country in that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Mairead Farrell: I have raised with the Taoiseach so many times the issue of vulture fund-owned student accommodation. We now know that vulture funds own almost as much student accommodation as the universities themselves. We now have a situation where in Cork and Dublin, there is more vulture fund-owned student accommodation than beds owned by the universities themselves, and Galway is actually getting to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter and I will ask the Minister for further and higher education to look specifically into that issue she raised. I take the importance that she made of the particular issue around the Gaeltacht and supporting the Irish language and Irish language guidelines as well. The Deputy and I had these exchanges before in my last role but I believe where we...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Pa Daly: Over the past 20 years, 500 people in south Kerry and 400 in north Kerry have participated in the rural social scheme, RSS, providing services such as meals on wheels, care of the elderly, the Valentia lighthouse, social farming and working community centres. The benefit to the participants and to the community has been immeasurable and the value for money, according to a Pobal review, is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy. It was an interesting point he made because we all share, across the political divide in here, an understanding of the value of the sorts of projects that he mentioned. I argue that we have put a lot of support in in recent years but the points the Deputy made are valid, and I will certainly ask the Department to consider them in advance of any new government coming to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: The latest CSO vital services report shows that County Clare recorded the highest suicide deaths by population size in Ireland last year. There were 25 deaths by suicide in Clare, which is the highest figure since records began. It has also come to my attention that there is currently a very important vacant post in the Ennis day centre, that being the psychologist. The previous...