57. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he supports and if his Department has been involved in discussions surrounding, a proposal for an European Artificial Intelligence Liability Directive to create a rebuttable 'presumption of causality', which would assist musicians, performers and composers to vindicate their right to equitable remuneration for use of their work …
58. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment whether any stakeholder within the music sector lobbied the Government for the transfer of functions relating to dispute resolution of sound recording copyright from the Controller of Intellectual Property to the Circuit Courts in advance of the publishing of the Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025; and to provide de…
59. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment whether any stakeholder within the music sector lobbied the Government for erasing the role of licensing bodies from dispute resolution of sound recording copyright in advance of the publishing of the Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025; and to provide details of times, dates and participants in correspondence or mee…
60. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of applications made each year to the Controller of Intellectual Property in relation to sound recording copyright. [34566/25]
61. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the judicial competence that the Controller of Intellectual Property lacks regarding sound recording copyright that requires this function to be transferred to the Circuit Courts under his proposed Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025; and to clarify the reason the Controller's competence in other areas of intellectua…
107. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport his plans regarding proposals for a successor scheme to the basic income for the arts pilot scheme; if he will commit to ensuring that disabled artists face no disadvantage in terms of social protection allowances to participate in the successor scheme; and when the 24-month report and cost benefit analysis of the pilot scheme will…
166. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Leanaí, Míchumais agus Comhionannais an bhfuil sé mar riachtanas ag naíonraí atá ag feidhmiú trí Ghaeilge i gceantair Ghaeltachta go mbeidh tús áite ag páistí atá á dtógáil trí Ghaeilge, ó tharla gurb é sin an dea-chleachtas; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [34587/25]
181. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health whether a person (details supplied) can be transferred from their present nursing home to another location. [34574/25]
249. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail, agus Gaeltachta bhfuil sé mar riachtanas ag naíonraí atá ag feidhmiú trí Ghaeilge i gceantair Ghaeltachta go mbeidh tús áite ag páistí atá á dtógáil trí Ghaeilge, ó tharla gurb é sin an dea-chleachtas; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [34586/25]
174. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport if he has any role in relation to the pricing of food and drink in airports; if he has corresponded with Aer Rianta in relation to hugely inflated prices charged by retail units in public airports and that allowing such runaway prices could have a detrimental impact on the tourism industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33619/25]
380. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Youth the exact steps required by her Department for a school to change its patronage; the role of the school’s board of management, the principal, religious orders and the parent’s council in such a change; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33586/25]
477. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to list every community-based festival and summer school that has approached him or his Department directly to solicit funding outside of the normal processes for grant applications on an exceptional basis to assist with developmental or other needs, over the past five years; the date of their request; and to list every community-b…
770. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive their much-needed hip operation. [33741/25]
772. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been denied support from community occupational therapy services in Crumlin, on the grounds that such assessments are only conducted after a hip replacement has taken place. [33752/25]
773. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health to examine the case of a person (details supplied) needing expedited support services. [33753/25]
847. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health whether it is normal procedure to transfer a public patient in a public hospital to a private hospital for care (details supplied). [34220/25]
848. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health whether it is normal procedure to transfer public health patients into private hospital care; and the annual cost of such transfer of care. [34221/25]
880. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who has 24-7 pain and discomfort in his neck and arm region down to his hand and fingers will receive the much-needed pain injection into his shoulder, via scan. [34320/25]
95. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the current strategy for community employment, the number of sponsor groups, participants and supervisors and whether any changes are planned to the scheme this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26196/25]
197. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any response has been received from Israel to his diplomatic rebuke for the shooting by Israel at Irish soldiers participating in a UNIFIL peacekeeping mission in Lebanon in May 2025. [33439/25]
198. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government’s approval is sought through the Foreign Affairs Council in advance of the President of the European Commission articulating a foreign policy position on behalf of the European Union. [33440/25]
199. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the article of the Treaty on European Union the Government, through the Foreign Affairs Council or otherwise, can delegate powers to represent the State on matters of foreign and security policy to the President of the European Commission rather than to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Poli…
200. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action Government takes, if any, in an instance where the President of the European Commission articulates a foreign policy position which has not been agreed by the Foreign Affairs Council; and to list the dates, reasons and nature of any protest made by the Government in response, in tabular form. [33442/25]
201. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government was asked, through the Foreign Affairs Council or otherwise, to approve any engagement between the President of the European Commission and persons wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court; and if President Ursula Von Der Leyen was representing the Government’s position when she engaged with …
202. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government is aware of any occasions since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on which he was granted entry to land or airspace of a member state of the European Union; and if the Government has issued any protest, through the Foreign Affairs Council or otherwise, at the ref…