Parliamentary questions

678. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the grants available to a community group to assist with the cost of a yearly musical festival; the terms involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2123/25]

679. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of civil servants in her Department, and in agencies under the aegis of her Department, who were on career break in 2023 or 2024, by month and grade, and by length of career break; the number of civil servants in her Department and in agencies under the aegis of her Department who w…

680. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of vacancies, by month and by grade, in her Department, and in agencies under the aegis of her Department, in 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46218/24]

681. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide an assurance that no civil servant has had their career break extended beyond five years where there is a suitable vacancy in their home Department or agency; that, where a civil servant has had their career break extended beyond five years on account of there being no suitable vaca…

682. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of vacancies, by grade, currently within her Department; and the estimated timeframe for filling each of the vacancies, in tabular form. [46386/24]

683. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if Tourism Ireland will run an advertisement campaign early in 2025 at the subway stations throughout New York. [46400/24]

684. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of WTE social media executives employed by Fáilte Ireland in the years of 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [46401/24]

685. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if an extension beyond 13 January will be applied to submissions for the Just Transition applications through Fáilte Ireland. [46450/24]

686. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to give favourable consideration to a review of an appeal by a club (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46641/24]

687. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to give favourable consideration to an appeal by a club (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46642/24]

688. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the grants that are available for arts collectives; and if officials in her Department could contact an organisation (details supplied) to support it to apply for same. [46651/24]

689. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the details of the requirements for having State identification documents, for example, passport, public services card, driver's licence and so on, issued with names in Irish, should the applicant choose to use the language; if these requirements are discordant with State efforts to facilitat…

690. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if a list will be provided of all persons appointed to State or semi-State boards under her remit since 1 November 2024. [46937/24]

691. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the scoring criteria applied when allocating funding in the most recent tranche of the Large-Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund. [1044/25]

692. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if any projects received funding from the recent tranche of the Large-Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund which were not identified by the relevant local authority as the number one priority for their county. [1045/25]

693. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the reason a centre (details supplied) was not allocated funding in the most recent tranche of the Large-Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund. [1046/25]

694. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide an update with regard to the Books of Innisfallen potentially being relocated to Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1204/25]

695. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media whether her Department provides any grant aid or funding to assist a sports club in acquisition of land; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1258/25]

696. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the amount that Failte Ireland spent on the most recent Winter in Dublin advertisement campaign. [1412/25]

697. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department and agencies under the aegis of her Department have policies on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the Department and those agencies; whether training has been provided to staff on the use of AI; if her Department has used AI, including large language models, in the pre…

698. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to outline any grants available through her Department to assist a sports club in developing a five-year development plan. [1642/25]

699. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the full address and Eircode of each property that is directly occupied by her Department where that address is located in Dublin, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1773/25]

700. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to urgently address the lack of available funding for dancers who have made it to the World Cup, but who have to forfeit their place as there is a lack of funding available to assist with travel and accommodation costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1788/25]

701. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide a schedule of all foreign travel undertaken by her and their accompanying officials in 2023 and 2024, including flight, hotel, transfers and other miscellaneous costs. [1870/25]

702. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to outline what measures have been taken to improve sporting facilities in Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2001/25]