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- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: You are absolutely right to make that point. That is the direct relationship with me and RTÉ - it is through the chair - and it is quite astounding that that is-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: Well, I have to take her at her word, but what this points to is astounding, astonishing weaknesses.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: I have to take Ms Doherty at her word, that she would respect the Oireachtas, including this joint committee, and-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: Yes, and the-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: And the title points to that, but also in the-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: Yes, I would be confident of that, but also, it added to the confusion in the first few weeks-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: -----that there were two boards and people were trying to grapple with it.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: Yes. What I see now is that complete breakdown in respect for each other, the executive board and the board, respect for the board that comes under me, with the direct relationship with the chair. I have seen that turned around completely, a full 360°, in what I am seeing with the DG and the chair. There is a strong relationship and they have put in measures to help strengthen the...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: Yes.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: Yes. There was a lot of disquiet about that at the time. I am aware of that. That is why I am glad the audit and risk committee of the board commissioned the Grant Thornton report to carry out a detailed review into the full circumstances. We need to get to the bottom of this and the facts surrounding the approval of that.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: The committee will have that in the coming weeks.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: I did find it problematic, and that is on foot of my engagement with the staff and the unions a few days after this controversy emerged. That is why, as you can understand, originally, within 48 hours, I announced the independent review into the governance structures. On foot of that engagement with the staff, I set up a second committee because of my concerns, and I hope it gets to the...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: We will await the recommendations, but I had sufficient concerns to set up a separate committee just to examine this thoroughly and I put the people with the expertise on it.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: The same as the other one, by January, in six months.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: The Future of Media Commission report last year - members would have copies of it - has recommended the replacement of the Sound and Vision fund with €30 million for media, which would include not just radio and television but print and online as well. Until we get the future funding model, last year I ring-fenced, under the recommendations, €6 million to look at, first, local...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: No.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: To follow the process up to now, which informs what happens next, that €34.5 million ask, plus that €21 million shortfall, is what NewERA was asked to interrogate. It came to me last week with a recommendation, which I have shared with the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, the party leaders and the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath. What happens next on the budget is that I am saying I...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: In the report it is €16 million. That is what was agreed by the Government last year. There is an agreement there already on that.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: First, we have to see the strategic vision - that is, myself and the Minister, Deputy Donohoe.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Catherine Martin: That will be October. That will be high level. By the end of the year, there will be definite time lines and implementation action. That is what I need to see before they get the rest of the amount.