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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: Is that in total or in addition?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: The Minister said she would not like to see compulsory redundancies. Is that a possibility, however?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: Would the Government fund voluntary redundancy, if RTÉ came forward with a strategic plan that would allow it to cut costs but could not afford doing so itself?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: Is that something that would be considered?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: Most people would look at it in the sense that we are asking RTÉ to cut costs. Approximately 51% of the cost of running the organisation is staff. How can we do that without affecting staff?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: As part of the future of RTÉ, is the Minister confident it will support the independent production companies that provide good, independent content for RTÉ? That is obviously a concern. These companies employ people in Ireland. There will be a knock-on effect if RTÉ has less money in terms of things that are being produced and paid for by RTÉ. Is it still key for the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: There is also the support of unscripted production. Is that something the Minister will look to support in future?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: I mean as regards the tax breaks given to unscripted productions under section 481.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: Is it something the Minister will consider, since we are making big changes within RTÉ? Is that something she thinks we should be looking at?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: Has the Minister spoken to Revenue in relation to the licence fee and proposed changes being made to that, including talk of a possible household media charge? Has anyone from the Department had communication with Revenue on how that would work?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: The Minister said that RTÉ cannot fall. I totally agree with her there. At the same time, we are saying that conditionality would be put in, if we are going to fund it. How do both those statements make sense? RTÉ is putting a proposal to the Minister that it is looking for extra money to keep it going. The Minister is saying these are the conditions for giving RTÉ the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: How do we enforce that conditionality if we are essentially saying we will not let RTÉ fall? I am not saying we should, but the ordinary person will say that just does not make sense.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: Can the Minister see how there can be confusion in that we are not letting the organisation fall, yet we are putting conditionalities into public funding to support it?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: I will let the others go first. I have a question but the Chair would have to be very lenient with me. It is not in relation to RTÉ. It is more of a local issue. If there is time at the end-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: It is a simple question. I was at a comedy club in Cahir in Tipperary at the weekend. It has been set up in the last couple of months by a guy called Tom O’Mahony. It is connected to RTÉ because he does the pre-show for “The Late Late Show” every week. He is a genius. A brilliant comedian. He is bringing the best comedians in the country to Cahir in Tipperary...

Seanad: Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber again and thank him for the work he and his officials have done on this Bill and in general throughout the year in the Department. As Senator Crowe said, this is important legislation. It has come through the Dáil already. It is a technical Bill but important nonetheless. The aim of the Bill is to streamline and strengthen Ireland's...

Seanad: Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: I am trying to do so. It is a business-related issue. While the Minister of State is before the House, I will raise the issue of work permits and people in the workforce. There is a real problem whereby people apply for work permits and get accepted, but are refused a visa and then cannot be reimbursed for applying for their work permit. Surely, there is something we can do for...

Seanad: Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: Will Sinn Féin stop it straight away if it gets in?

Seanad: Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 Oct 2023)

Garret Ahearn: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

Garret Ahearn: Judging by all the contributions, the Taoiseach has an awful lot of problems to solve and money to give out after today, and I am going to add one more that has not yet been spoken about, although I have spoken about it many times previously. It relates to speeding up investment for infrastructure in Irish Water. Clonmel has been decimated with outages and disruptions all year to the point...