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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)

Shane Cassells: That is fine but we are now at the centre of a storm around the national broadcaster. This man has been brought in to clean it up. He sat in the room with you and the chair and he said nothing on your direct questions about the process that was involved for that exit package, and whether the board approved it. How can the Minister have confidence in the director general and not in the chair?

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)

Shane Cassells: So you do have confidence in the director general?

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)

Shane Cassells: Okay. They were a team, as was evident in his statement last week, and the huge regard he had for Siún Ní Raghallaigh. However, if Ms Ní Raghallaigh misled the Minister in that room last week, which is clear - we have extrapolated here that she did, as far as the Minister is concerned - then so did Kevin Bakhurst. The Minister summoned them last Monday to discuss the process...

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)

Shane Cassells: That is amazing.

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)

Shane Cassells: He sat in the room and listened to that inaccurate information being given to the Minister. He knowingly sat there, and let that misinformation be given to the Minister. Either that, or nobody knows what is going on in RTÉ whatsoever.

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)

Shane Cassells: That is an amazing admission. Why bother summoning him at all? Was he there to make the tea? That is amazing, and it is not consistent to say that you have confidence in him and no confidence in the chair because your relationship was with the chair. He is actually running the ship. He is the paid executive on hundreds of thousands of euro, appointed to run the ship, and you say that 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)

Shane Cassells: That is amazing. Either they should both be gone or they should both be in their jobs. Was this personal against the chair because you felt that she had misled you too many times, and this was the end of the road?

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)

Shane Cassells: I cannot believe that you can differentiate between two people sitting in the room who were complicit in the same misinformation being given to you but you can have confidence in one, and no confidence in the other. That does not tally whatsoever.

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)

Shane Cassells: The Minister said that she has not received any formal correspondence relating to the role of the board in the exit package but the Business Post detailed on Sunday that her three senior officials, Catherine Licken, Tríona Quill and Stephen Ryan, were informed at the Committee of Public Accounts on 12 October with regard to the terms of reference on the board's remuneration. Did nobody...

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)

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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)

Shane Cassells: I am sorry, Chair. On the report that Siún Ó Raghallaigh called Ms Licken on 10 October and told her that there had been an agreement with Richard Collins, you said Ms Licken has no recollection of being told that the package was "approved". That does not mean it did not happen. Just because she said she has no recollection does not mean it did not happen. Has the 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)

Shane Cassells: Ms Licken's recollection is still that she has no memory of being told that it was agreed.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Cathaoirleach and as rapporteur, it is a great pleasure to welcome all of our guests. As the Cathaoirleach has said, we already have had a number of witnesses before us including councillors from all over the country and public representative association bodies. These have included the Northern Ireland Local Government Association and councillors from Northern Ireland,...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Shane Cassells: It is great to have him here in the Seanad Chamber to debate his insights from the last term as well. I also welcome in particular my fellow county man, Noel Dempsey, who was perhaps one of the most reforming Ministers in local government. The changes that he brought in in the mid-1990s and the systems he introduced gave the likes of me and many other young people their chance. That was...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Shane Cassells: I have a couple of quick questions. As I said at the outset, I knew there would be extremely insightful remarks from all four witnesses and I have a few questions to each of them. One is to Deputy Howlin regarding the statistics he quoted on spending. As I said to Mr. Dempsey before the meeting, Deputy Howlin would often make the point at the PAC that the Comptroller and Auditor General...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Cathaoirleach. As he said, I am the rapporteur for this report and the body of work we are doing in terms of public hearings on the future of local democracy. I very deeply welcome our guests to the Chamber. It is so fitting that they will be addressing members this evening and putting out their points of view. This matter is something I feel very passionately about. I have...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Shane Cassells: Let me go through some of the points raised. On full-time councillors, the fact that what former Minister Noel Dempsey called for here this morning needs to be introduced is significant. His point was not just about remuneration. He referred to the number of statutory reports from national level that councillors are now expected to read. Many say they do not have time to read them, but...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Shane Cassells: We have been here since 10.30 a.m. and we have had the opportunity to listen to those who have framed policy and the lived experience of those who have implemented it. Mr. Breandán Fitzgerald was so right in saying a seat is what you make it. I recall when I was a councillor and I heard the same issues spoken of then as were raised today. We made things happen regardless, however, and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2024)

Shane Cassells: I join with the Cathaoirleach in welcoming the ambassador to the Chamber. Regarding the events yesterday and the resignation of the Taoiseach, I pay tribute to him and his service for the country. It is important to recognise that and the role he has played in this and other Governments. I wish to discuss an interesting piece of research that was launched today and circulated to us,...