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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Integration of LGFA and Camogie Association with the GAA: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Shane Cassells: When will that audit of the facilities be completed?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Integration of LGFA and Camogie Association with the GAA: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Shane Cassells: Finally, I will ask Mr. Molloy-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Integration of LGFA and Camogie Association with the GAA: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Shane Cassells: In respect of the development of the game and the advantages to the Camogie Association of having the integration model, does that offer a route to broaden the game countrywide?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Integration of LGFA and Camogie Association with the GAA: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Shane Cassells: That is a great way of looking at it.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Integration of LGFA and Camogie Association with the GAA: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Shane Cassells: There are a lot of witnesses to try to get through. I thank Ms Magee for the work of GAA Scór. My own club, Navan O'Mahonys GAA, qualified for the Leinster final at the weekend. I will start with Mr. Parsons. The GAA president, Jarlath Burns, spoke about the costs of intercounty teams, which is north of €40 million, and described it as “unsustainable”. He is...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Integration of LGFA and Camogie Association with the GAA: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Shane Cassells: I have my club accounts here. We spent €290,000 last year, of which €100,000 was on team expenses and the rest was on running the club. We still managed to make a profit. That was my club alone.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Integration of LGFA and Camogie Association with the GAA: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Shane Cassells: It is going to go up.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Integration of LGFA and Camogie Association with the GAA: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Shane Cassells: I am not asking about the debate on efficiencies. I am asking about intercounty managers who are driving a game towards professionalism by trying to get to what they see as X level. They are increasing the number of training sessions. I accept Mr. Parsons's point. You could stand still and costs will still go up. Maybe that should be called out. Equally, if he is calling for the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Integration of LGFA and Camogie Association with the GAA: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Shane Cassells: Absolutely, but my point is-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Integration of LGFA and Camogie Association with the GAA: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Shane Cassells: -----that things are made up by people. They are made up by managers and players. Managers are asking their players to give X amount and pushing them. In fairness to the GAA, the new uachtarán is saying that we need an amateur task force to actually take that back. The GPA is the players' representative body and I am talking about asking the players whether they feel they are being...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2024)

Shane Cassells: I want to give a cautious welcome to the news overnight that Tara Mines in Navan is to reopen on a gradual basis. This mine, the largest sink mine in Europe, has been closed for nine long months, with more than 600 employees left on minimal support. It has been nine long months when there has been very little goodwill from the company towards this workforce in Navan. It is my sense there...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Shane Cassells: I very much welcome the debate and the opportunity to discuss this very important issue. I thank my colleagues for tabling the motion. It is very poignant. I welcome the intervention by the Tánaiste, who used his platform to discuss this and described it as a public health issue. That is exactly what it is. I particularly acknowledge the work of the Minister in dealing with this...

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

Shane Cassells: I welcome all the witnesses. My first question is for Ms O'Kelly. She made reference to job losses. In November, the bailout deal of €56 million for RTÉ was announced, with the money to be paid in two tranches of €16 million last year and another €14 million this year after the publication of the governance reports. The day after the announcement of that deal,...

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

Shane Cassells: Ms O'Kelly used the words "seems to be". She is alluding to a deal. I would prefer if we were all straight on this. Is she saying that RTÉ had a gun put to its head by the Government and was told that unless it agreed to cut a fifth of its workforce, it would not get the bailout of €56 million?

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

Shane Cassells: The union representatives have said the job losses will have an impact on quality of production. Have either Mr. Dooley or Ms O'Kelly put it to RTÉ that the Government sought job losses in return for a bailout of nearly €60 million?

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

Shane Cassells: Does Mr. Dooley feel that Kevin Bakhurst was forced into this position of cuts and, in respect of where those cuts are being made, the impact that is having on RTÉ?

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

Shane Cassells: Parking the question of whether someone holds a full-time employee contract, RTÉ has committed to increasing independent production. It would say it is safeguarding the entity that is RTÉ and that from the point of view of the viewers, who do not know whether someone is on a full-time contract or is part of independent production, the future of RTÉ will be safeguarded. Does...

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

Shane Cassells: The point was made that the need for commercialisation infiltrates the modus operandi of RTÉ, which is how a position like the current one is arrived at, and that a purely publicly funded model would alleviate this. However, if we look to the BBC, which has had many of the same types of governance issues, it still has a scenario of overpaid presenters, with Gary Lineker being paid...