Results 1-20 of 45 for going forward speaker:Imelda Munster

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2024)

Imelda Munster: ...about a pattern emerging, it is important that people know the committee has the power of compellability. There are serious concerns in respect of management, or lack of management, and serious governance failures. They have to be accounted for. If we go with the 9 May, we should press on UL the importance of this issue. Maybe it does not care, but avoiding attendance does not show it...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Imelda Munster: ...payments to its top-paid presenter, it is hard to credit that the Renault deal ran for one year with RTÉ covering that €75,000 for Renault - it would not have to worry because it would all look good on paper - and the other two €75,000 payments for the other two years. The executive board went to all that bother to top up payments for its highest-paid presenter. We...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Imelda Munster: ...be used for the purpose of hospitality and entertainment in relation to advertising clients/media agencies to ensure that RTÉ can continue to increase its advertising revenue and to retain [its growth] going forward. .... It appears on the balance sheet of RTÉ, and the appropriate controls are in place regarding oversight and spend. That is simply not true. It is in fact...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Challenges Facing Providers of Tourist Accommodation in Ireland: Discussion (29 Mar 2023)

Imelda Munster: ...all it can. One reason I asked the question relates to the fact the IHF’s statement made no mention of anything its members are doing to combat that. It stated that“60% of hoteliers report that forward bookings from Great Britain are still down on pre-Covid levels” and that circumstances are also challenging for the rest of Europe. Is reputational damage starting to...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Imelda Munster: ...on low and fixed incomes. We are constantly trying to ensure that every section of Irish society gets some sort of relief during this cost-of-living crisis. We are forced to do this because the Government has been too slow or completely unwilling to act. Last week, we put forward a motion for mortgage interest relief. It was rejected out of hand by the Government. Rents in 2022...

Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Imelda Munster: ...multi-billion dollar global corporations is the least we can do as legislators. We have to do our bit to protect the health and well-being of our children, and the inclusion of these safeguards is a massive step forward. The Bill also creates a significant new regulatory framework, coimisiún na meán. This will replace the BAI and will have significant additional powers. The...

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Imelda Munster: We are putting forward this motion at a time when energy poverty is at its highest-ever recorded rate. We are also in the midst of the biggest energy crisis we have faced in a generation with home energy and fuel costs going through the roof as we head into winter. The Government's totally inadequate retrofitting schemes are compounding the energy crisis. More than 9,000 households are...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (30 Jun 2022)

Imelda Munster: ...a target date. The target date had passed and my constituent was starting to get a bit panicky. She checked and saw a message to say the photograph had not uploaded. She uploaded it again but got no confirmation at all. She phoned the Passport Office. Obviously, she would still be ringing them waiting for an answer. My constituent uploaded it three times to be then told she had...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Imelda Munster: The Minister and Minister of State are welcome. In the Minister's opening statement, she stated, "our tourism sector looks forward to a busy summer season ahead" and indeed it does. You can already see an abundance of tourists throughout the city but for how long will that last, given the price gouging that is going on in hotels and the extortionate room rates people are being charged?...

Transport, Accelerating Sustainable Mobility: Statements (31 May 2022)

Imelda Munster: ...Minister for Transport. He is aware of this issue. His policies are encouraging people to drive part of the way to work because they cannot afford public transport. These are the policies he is putting forward and that people must live with, day in and day out. These are the policies coming from a Green Party Minister for Transport. Witnesses from the NTA made it clear to the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (24 May 2022)

Imelda Munster: ...was allocated to the sports capital programme in each of the years 2021 and 2022; and if she will confirm that this is approximately the level of funding that can be expected on an annual basis going forward. [26531/22]

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: ...this with the Minister previously. In regard to private rented accommodation, where landlords can avail of the deep retrofitting grant and they can ask a tenant to move out while the work is ongoing. By law they have to offer the property back to the tenant but because the property has been brought up to a certain BER standard they are exempt from the limits of the rent pressure zone....

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: It would be wise to do that and, going forward, to have a record of how many times there were catastrophic cases for families. It might be good due diligence to keep a record of that and perhaps it would be a learning curve for Mr. Reid going forward.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: These big developers, who have already got forward purchase agreements with the investment or cuckoo funds, are capable of arranging funding themselves and capable of formulating a business plan and going to the banks to get that because, let us say, they are in a far more comfortable position than a small- or medium-sized developer. In giving that money over, it seems to me the equivalent...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Gosh. I am sure they were rubbing their hands when they got the funding so easy, given the exorbitant rental charge and the profits they are going to make. The remit of the HBFI was not to distort the market. Of the €300 million, some €190 million of that went to those cuckoo funds or developers that had the forward purchase agreements. It does not seem to add up. What were...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Home Building Finance Ireland - Financial Statements 2020 (3 Mar 2022)

Imelda Munster: Everyone under the sun knows that if there were forward purchase agreements already in place, they would have been huge things to go to the bank with. They would have been sure of getting funding but HBFI did not ask any questions whatsoever. It allocated €300 million out of the €730 million to that. The largest tranche of funding given out was €94 million, which was...

Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Motion (8 Feb 2022)

Imelda Munster: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this very important motion that has been brought forward by my colleague, Deputy Sorca Clarke. We have all been horrified by the stories told in Ms Katie Hannon's RTÉ documentary from last September, which laid bare the horrific abuse, harassment and discrimination experienced by some female members of the Defence Forces. At that time, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (20 Jan 2022)

Imelda Munster: ...timeline for the passage of the Bill? The Minister has said we may have to regulate on an EU basis. Has that been absolutely confirmed? Even if that is the case, it should not prevent us from going forward with this. Funding could be sourced through Europe and, of course, the big technology companies could also fund the individual complaints mechanism. Something like that should not...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: ...can answer. Will they comment on the Minister's response to the Speak Up: A Call for Change report? They hinted that deficiencies remain. What are those deficiencies? As we are pushed for time, I will go through my questions and then allow the witnesses to answer. In a follow-up to that, have the witnesses any detail on what kind of agency should be created to deal with complaints?...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Imelda Munster: ...to have no interest in a body which it funds when that body is opening up potentially very significant liabilities. I accept that RTÉ is an independent statutory body, but on the one hand it is going cap-in-hand to the Government with the Government seemingly uninterested in getting value for money. On the other hand, RTÉ pressed back against this committee when we attempted to...