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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: August. I thank Ms Forbes. What I am curious about is that from a consumer's perspective, television has changed considerably. The licence fee is one of many fees that are available for accessing content. People might have some combination of Sky, Virgin, Eir, sports channels or Netflix. The cost of television is much higher from a consumer's perspective if one has a Sky package and pays...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is not there. Is Ms Forbes saying the platforms are obliged to carry RTÉ and RTÉ is obliged to provide its service?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is RTÉ obliged to provide it free to them?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I accept it is an international discussion and one can see different moves in different countries regarding it. I wish to check the situation with Facebook. Essentially, I can watch all of RTÉ's public service broadcasting on different channels on Facebook. What does RTÉ get from Facebook?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: But RTÉ is not obliged to put its content on Facebook.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I checked last night. It is more than selective; it is all of this week's major political stories, for example. I presume there is a feed through, because what RTÉ wants from Facebook is deriving the advertising from billions of eyeballs. Facebook is deriving information from people to better target them. It is profiting from this advertising model by people going on Facebook and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In terms of the advertising model, presumably RTÉ is trying to drive a certain volume of traffic from Facebook through to its own app or digital platforms to derive advertising revenue from them?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry to go on and on about it, but in terms of Facebook, RTÉ has a significant critical asset in its newsroom and there are so few of those assets with content at that scale and of that quality. I pay the TV licence fee for that public service content, but it is coming out for nothing. Last night, for example, I went on Facebook. I went into the news app. Ms Forbes referred in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Could I ask Ms Forbes about the land sale some time ago to Cairn Homes, which I know she is happy to speak about today? The land was sold at a moment in the market at a one-off price. How did RTÉ originally acquire the land? Was it part of a public service transfer, and if so, when? I just do not know the answer to that. What was the original source of the land RTÉ has?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand that. What I am curious about is whether consideration was given to alternative options to a single once-off moment-in-time sale. Were any long-term revenue raising options considered? I ask that because of the long-term difficulties that RTÉ, especially with structural funding and pension funds. A moment-in-time sale only represents one option. For example, was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is fine. I will move on to ask Ms Forbes about the Eversheds Sutherland report and this question regarding competition and competitive talent in particular. It is of interest because it is very visible. I appreciate that it is a very small part of RTÉ's employment profile generally, but it is a visible one in which people are interested and also an aspect that I think frustrates...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry for interrupting and I apologise for cutting across Ms Forbes, it is just that time is so tight. The market, though, is necessarily local or linguistic. There is not a competitive European market for talent. It is not as though an RTÉ presenter is going to go off and land a gig presenting in France because there are obvious language barriers. There is even the very local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have one observation on the back and forth between the commissioner and the other witness. I appreciate all of the different perspectives but there is an unusual tension. It is very obvious to see. Having watched some of these interactions with public bodies for some time at this stage, I am aware it is never as straightforward as observers may sometimes try to say it is. I am a little...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am reading it here in front of me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am reading it there and I am happy to take more on it. The witness has had ample opportunity to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The question relates to the Data Protection Commission. I am coming to it from the perspective of constituents and from consumers who find all of this very difficult. They are, in large part, aware of the general rules but not necessarily what they cover, how to access them and so on. This includes the Article 5 rules for data being stored only for as long as necessary, or the big...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation: Discussion (27 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The commissioner, please.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (28 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on extending the bathing season in Dublin Bay to year round to facilitate year round water testing which will allow persons to make informed decisions regarding water swimming safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21560/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (28 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the Irish Water admission that in the four year period 2017-2020 a total of approximately 8.875 million cubic metres of untreated sewage and storm waters was discharged into Dublin Bay from overflow tanks located at the Ringsend wastewater treatment plant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21561/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (28 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 715. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the location of the pilot programme to introduce vulnerability assessments for asylum seekers; the persons included in the programme; the duration of the programme; the way feedback from the programme will be assessed; the number of assessments to date; the methods of assessment being used; the person or body...