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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 154. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of accommodation recognition payments being provided in 2023 and to date in 2024; the type of accommodation provided that is single room in a house/ full house and so on; the amount of rental properties being provided to Ukrainians under this scheme; and the amount of Ukrainians who have transferred...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I want to issue a fíor fáilte roimh gach duine anseo. I want to welcome all the witnesses and thank them for coming. I expected a different response but nonetheless I believe the witnesses are doing their best. It is a messy situation. There is a saying about something rotten in the state of Denmark. There is something very rotten in Montrose. I have been quite straightforward...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The number of 297 is astounding. They were treated appallingly. They were literally dismissed. RTÉ reclassified employees and forced them into yellow pack contracts where terms and conditions were far less than if they had been legally classified as employees in the first instance. How can the TUG stand over such contracts?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: What percentage of the 297 does Mr. Dooley think might have decided themselves that they did not want to stay?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The way Mr. Dooley is talking, you would think there are two silos and there was a big wall between the union and management. Did staff not have representation on the board?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I am sure Mr. Dooley is aware that misclassification of workers as bogus self-employed is a criminal offence under the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005. Is Mr. Dooley aware of that?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Excuse me. I do not read any tweets. I never tweeted in my life. If Mr. Dooley wants to act the twit, he can, but I never read any tweets. I am not told what to say by anybody.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: In an appeal process, surely the union should be jumping up and down, looking for prosecutions. The law has been flouted hundreds of thousands of times on an ongoing basis. The union wants to be and is part of that institution. I have said from the outset that the fraud squad and Criminal Assets Bureau should have been brought into RTÉ. Why is the NUJ not looking for the fraud squad...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The NUJ has not got up at all. It has said plenty. Mr. Dooley is often on radio and I had more respect for him than I have today, because he is being smart. He has a responsibility to the yellow pack workers and the NUJ is not the only union in the public service that has allowed yellow pack workers to be introduced. It does cosy deals with Governments and Departments and to hell with the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Of course.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is true.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Mr. Dooley has accepted that it was not right. It is not right.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Under the 2005 consolidation Act it is a criminal offence to have-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: -----misclassified something. Full stop.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: That is why I am asking the good people here whether they have taken strenuous action to represent the people who were misclassified by their employer and been punished and the yellow-pack workers that were trucked out the door. It was said that some of them were not trade union members and that some went voluntarily. There is a lot of work to be done on the unions' side so I am asking what...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Why have there not been any prosecutions? Why is the law being flouted openly? I have seen "RTÉ Investigates" - and I admire a lot of what it does - go down to Tipperary, punish decent companies, mislead, stick a camera on someone and totally blackguard a businessman who has since died. You can do all this in the name of honesty and transparency. It grievously wronged that company,...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I am talking about within RTÉ.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: He is an insider. He works for RTÉ. That answers my question. The cat is minding the cream.