Parliamentary questions

256. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the data sources his Department has used to estimate there are 10,000 short-term properties that could be made available in the long-term letting market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8819/25]

257. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media how often the data on short-term letting properties are updated and revised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8820/25]

258. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will provide the location, size and ownership of the short-term properties available, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8821/25]

259. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the factors considered when reducing the numbers of short-term letting properties from 12,000 to 10,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8822/25]

260. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will offer his full support to the Arts Council’s efforts to recoup costs incurred by the IT project through legal redress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8695/25]

261. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will identify any positions relating to IT which the Arts Council sought to establish or fill since 2018 and required clearance for from a Government Department, as well as the length of time it took for such a request from the Arts Council to be granted clearance to do so by the relevant …

262. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will clarify the meaning of the ‘lessons learnt programme’ conducted in the Arts Council following the incorrect correspondence promising Next Generation Awards funding which had to be rescinded, as outlined in the 2023 Annual Report he recently signed off for publication; and if he will m…

263. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will outline the composition of the project steering group overseeing the Arts Council’s IT project throughout its existence; and the representation his Department had on the group. [8743/25]

264. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will identify the most senior official in his Department who was aware of the Arts Council IT project problems prior to receipt of the 2023 Annual Report in summer 2024; how early they knew about the problems; and the reasons they decided not to inform the then Minister or Secretary Genera…

265. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will publish in full all correspondence between the Arts Council and his Department in relation to the IT project and its problems since it received sign-off from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in 2019. [8746/25]

266. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide details of the divisions and units that operate within the Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8779/25]

267. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the bodies which operate under their aegis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8781/25]

268. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if his Department can provide funding to support Clare County Council and an organisation (details supplied) in their pursuit to develop a safe clifftop walk at the Cliffs of Moher; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8799/25]

269. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide a funding scheme for the provision of paddle courts in towns and villages across counties Carlow and Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8846/25]

166. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if consideration has been given to community/sporting/private companies seeking to develop new or ancient attractions along the blueways around the State; if so, the type of grant is envisaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8325/25]

167. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the funding directed to arts centres in each county from 2022 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8196/25]

168. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he or his Department have carried out any surveys on the use of the various blueways currently in place here; if he intends to publish any such surveys; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8324/25]

169. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will address the ever deteriorating mobile phone coverage in many parts of County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8391/25]

170. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media whether the review that is taking place into governance within his Department will be external and time-bound; the scope of the review; who is to conduct the review; the timeframe he intends for the review to complete; and if he will commit to publishing the review in full once it is concluded. …

171. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he agrees that Foras na Gaeilge’s funding system has been broken (with the cross-Border organisation having a budget value of 40%, 20% less 20 years later) and that at least €20 million more of the work of the Irish language outside the Gaeltacht, as set out in the Growth Plan 2024-2029, should …

457. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the date on which it is planned to publish the 1926 census. [8100/25]

458. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the date on which it is planned to publish the 1926 Census. [8100/25]

459. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media further to Parliamentary Question No. 338 of 11 February 2025, if any international day of famine commemoration took place in 2024; and if not, the reason therefor. [7123/25]

460. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to outline every update provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in relation to the Arts Council IT project since the project was first approved in 2019, specifying whether the update included information on costs and the date of the update; an…

461. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to outline every update provided to the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in relation to the Arts Council IT project since the project was first approved in 2019, specifying whether the update included information on costs and the date of the update; and if he will ma…