Results 7,861-7,880 of 7,961 for speaker:Imelda Munster

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: 389. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be provided to expedite a review regarding registration with CORU (details supplied). [28046/24]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: A view has been expressed by many staff at RTÉ and by commentators that the New Direction strategy disproportionately affects workers on lower pay grades rather than those responsible for the mismanagement we have seen at RTÉ. Would Mr. Bakhurst like to comment on that?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: In fairness, many of those senior staff left with big, hefty packages.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: Okay.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: I ask Mr. Bakhurst to explain the intention to privatise two flagship programmes, namely, "Fair City" and "The Late Late Show". For my own knowledge, what would it cost to dismantle the set of "Fair City" and rebuild it?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: If we are privatising the programme and it is going to be outsourced to a private independent company, will the set be left in situ and unused in RTÉ while another is built? What would the cost of this approach be?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: If that is the plan, then it would have been worked out where the savings would be in doing it. In fairness, this is public service media and these are two flagship programmes. Can Ms O'Connor tell us where the saving is in doing this?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: If these programmes are being moved off-site for those reasons and the building would cost an extraordinary amount of money to bring up to standard, what will happen with that building?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Bakhurst means outside of RTÉ.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: What is the plan for the staff who work on both programmes?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: That is a lot of uncertainty for the staff involved in that. No clear decisions have been made. A decision was made to-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: -----privatise the two flagship programmes, but there was no thought to how that will operate and where the savings would be as such. Normally, when you outsource to private sector, it is automatically more expensive. The outside broadcast unit was sold some years ago. It was a good deal initially, but when they realised they had a monopoly, the price rocketed. Are we making the same...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: If that decision is taken, it would be privatising it.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: But not these two.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: As it stands, Mr. Bakhurst cannot give any guarantees to any of the staff involved in those two flagship programmes.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: Yes but there is no guarantee their job as it is will not be outsourced or privatised.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: Will all drama be outsourced going into the future?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: Everything apart from those two is outsourced, so this is the final one - the flagship, "Fair City". It is gone now, if that is the decision taken.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Imelda Munster: I agree with Mr. Bakhurst that there are. However, it is public service media and this is the one last flagship programme, and that is now being-----