Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Michael McNamara

526. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will suspend the reimposed BAI levy which averages at €2,500 per month for a local radio station (details supplied); if she will consider providing the reintroduction of another BAI Sound and Vision scheme to support Covid-19 related programming on the station; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32579/20]

Departmental Expenditure

Marian Harkin

527. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the funding available to musicians as announced in budget 2021; the process to access the funding and closing dates for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32618/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Joe O'Brien

528. Deputy Joe O'Brien asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if specific gyms or training centres have been nominated to facilitate ongoing training for professional and elite sport under the current level 5 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32622/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Seán Sherlock

529. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if parents can travel outside 5 km to drop children to sports training that is outside their 5 km limit. [32659/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Martin Browne

530. Deputy Martin Browne asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the supports her Department has put in place for sports clubs and groups such as marching bands that have rent on halls and related costs to pay but have been closed for the majority of 2020; and if there is assistance available to these clubs to ensure they are not forced to close for good. [32736/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Neale Richmond

531. Deputy Neale Richmond asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the reason elite athletes have an exemption that allows them to travel for their sporting matches and not restrict their movements for 14 days upon their return; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32819/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Ged Nash

532. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her attention has been drawn to the impact Covid-19 level 5 restrictions will have on advertising revenue for local newspapers; if her Department will consider developing a specific package of financial supports to address the particular and unique challenges faced by local print media; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32827/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Steven Matthews

533. Deputy Steven Matthews asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the sports in which school-age children can participate under level 5 restrictions with the caveat on group size and non-contact requirement accepted; and if the position will be clarified for the less mainstream sports that include but are not limited to horse riding and archery amongst others. [32830/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Imelda Munster

534. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if additional funding will be available for clubs that are struggling financially due to Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33092/20]

Tourism Industry

Jennifer Whitmore

535. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the aspects of Budget 2021 which relate to tour operators taking into account the decline in tourism activities here particularly under level 5 Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33130/20]

Departmental Funding

Patrick Costello

536. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the financial support provided by her Department to the St. John’s Ambulance service for 2020; and the estimated support for 2021 [33135/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Mattie McGrath

537. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if extracurricular music education classes are allowed to continue during level 5 restrictions; if she will provide details on the guidelines relating to musical education under level 5; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33190/20]

National Orchestras

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

538. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the areas in which the €8 million additional funding promised in Budget 2021 to transfer the National Symphony Orchestra to the National Concert Hall will be spent; if the National Symphony Orchestra had been in receipt of State funding prior to the transfer; if so, the amount; and if the €8 million promised to the National Symphony Orchestra is entirely new State funding or is a transfer of its existing funding allocation within her Department. [33200/20]

National Orchestras

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

539. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the reason the €8 million allocated to the National Symphony Orchestra for 2021 is categorised as Covid-19 contingency funding in view of the fact the transfer of the orchestra to the National Concert Hall is unrelated to the pandemic; if this categorisation makes the €8 million a one-off allocation; and if it will affect the core funding allocation upon which future allocations will be based. [33201/20]

National Concert Hall

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

540. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the National Concert Hall will receive an additional funding in 2021 separate from the funding for the National Symphony Orchestra. [33202/20]

National Cultural Institutions

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

541. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the way in which the €3 million additional funding promised to the National Cultural Institutions in Budget 2021, separate from the National Symphony Orchestra transfer, will be allocated. [33203/20]

Departmental Expenditure

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

542. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has raised the issue of live events businesses not being eligible for the Covid restrictions support scheme due to their lack of business premises with the Minister for Finance or the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment; the steps she suggests to ensure live events businesses are not disadvantaged by this ineligibility and can survive while restrictions prohibit the holding of live events; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33204/20]

Arts Council

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

543. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the additional funding for the Arts Council announced as Covid-19 contingency funding in Budget 2021 is a one-off allocation for 2021 alone; and if there will be an increase made to the core funding upon which future budget allocations will be based. [33206/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Ruairí Ó Murchú

544. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the status of community music and drama schools under level 5 of the Plan for Living with Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33238/20]

Sports Capital Programme

Claire Kerrane

545. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if an organisation (details supplied) can register for funding under the sports capital programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33245/20]