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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Farmers, farming and fishing families and everybody in rural communities are devastated this afternoon by the vote that took place in the European Parliament. I salute the two MEPs who are awake to what is going on and voted against it. A total of 20% of our land and seas will be taken out of production by 2030. Then we have the lovely word "ecosystems", which all have to be restored by...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is a shocking situation. We need a debate urgently.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Then show us.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Government does not show it.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: And Dee Forbes.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach agus fáiltím roimh an Aire agus roimh na daoine eile. Who appointed the board of RTÉ?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister has the final responsibility.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Through you, obviously. You are in government. You have not addressed the issue decisively and have allowed it to erode public trust. Does the Minister accept that?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You have not addressed this situation properly as the Minister in charge. You are allowing the public’s confidence in RTÉ to be further eroded. Would you accept that?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: But he sits idly by when the chair is misinforming you.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: No matter; he was in the room. He is the DG. You just said he is responsible to the board.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I put it to you that you have failed to put the right questions to the RTÉ board through the chair, who is the only person you can talk to, as you say. You also failed to ask the right questions of the chair or, indeed, of the DG who comes along just as a mute person to accompany the chair or, as somebody said, to make the tea. I do not want to insult the man but he must know, if he is...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Thank you. At what point did you lose confidence in the former chair of the board, Ms Ní Raghallaigh?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Was your effective public dismissal of the chair on RTÉ appropriate, or professional, by a Cabinet Minister?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You could have waited. You could have cancelled the programme, as others have said. You could have easily pulled out. We know now that you briefed the presenter or the research team that you were prepared to answer this question, so it was a leading question to dismiss her publicly or throw her under the bus, as has been said. Going forward, how can you feel confident or what confidence...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Well, nobody else has.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Nobody else has.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I do not believe you have either, to be fair, if you were being honest.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I do not believe you have, through the Chair. I do not believe you have. How could you when the DG sat there throughout a meeting when you were being misinformed by Ms Ní Raghallaigh, as you have stated yourself?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: He never opened his mouth. Béal dúnta.