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Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)

Garret Ahearn: Amendment No. 16 is in the names of Senators Boyhan and Craughwell. Amendments Nos. 16, 19 to 23, inclusive, and 26 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Garret Ahearn: He should set it up himself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Garret Ahearn: I thank the witnesses for all their contributions today and for being here today. First, I wish to acknowledge TG4’s production of sport. It is phenomenal. Coming from someone who is not as good with the Irish language, or even close to being as good, as Deputy Ó Snodaigh or Senator Rónán Mullen, I find myself learning Irish while I am watching club games or the Tour...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Garret Ahearn: Someone like me finds myself in that gateway accidentally because you have that concern of not having the language. It is helpful. I have two questions. In her written submission, Deirdre Ní Choistín highlighted concerns about the annual review of funding. Adequacy may not be compliant with the European Media Freedom Act. Can she elaborate on that point? What changes to this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Garret Ahearn: I have two minutes left. Witnesses from Virgin Media said in their contribution how proud they are of the work they do, as they rightly should be, and that they tap into a market that is not there. A prime example of that is “Ireland AM”. People get their trusted news of the day, which is important to say, from that show. My household, like many throughout the country, has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Garret Ahearn: All of them have done a fine job. The serious question is this: if Virgin Media were to go back to four days a week with that show, would it be classed as additional content under the Bill? How possible is it to increase the schedule of "The Tonight Show"? It is trusted by the public. They watch it every night if it is on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Garret Ahearn: Will Ms Ní Chaoindealbháin answer on the League of Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Garret Ahearn: I am only joking. Gavan is doing fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Garret Ahearn: I will go back to what the Chair said about "The Tonight Show" and additional content. We do not know whether it qualifies, as the Chair said, but the real question is whether, if it is found to qualify, Virgin Media is committed to going back to four days per week on "The Tonight Show"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Garret Ahearn: Is it something Virgin Media wants to go back to? Does it see it as a success?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Garret Ahearn: And the only reason it is not there four nights is financial.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Garret Ahearn: So, if it qualifies, then it is an option.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Garret Ahearn: I too support my party colleagues' comments on the messages from the Minister for higher education about increasing fees in the next budget. I have got hundreds of calls from parents who are absolutely terrified of the cost that college fees will impose on them come September if there is an increase of €1,000.We know a lot of families who have two, three and even four people going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Garret Ahearn: I have been in and out of the meeting for votes in the Seanad and have missed things so if I ask a question that has been asked already, my apologies. Mr. Ó Coigligh said that he has confidence that things have changed within the Department, and that he was not satisfied when he came in first about the situation with the Arts Council. He said when he was in here with the Arts Council...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Garret Ahearn: What did the officials think?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Garret Ahearn: What prompted the council to inform the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Garret Ahearn: Was it just a random phone call? Did the council ring him just to say it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Garret Ahearn: Therefore, when the officials came here a couple of weeks ago with the Arts Council and it said it had spent €60,000 on legal fees so far they were, like us, of the view that information was correct. That bill comes back on the Department, so there are people pushing a legal case they do not personally have to pay for, or certainly the Arts Council does not, and we have now found it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2025)

Garret Ahearn: Do the officials know when the Attorney General's office will come back to them with that advice? They did not two weeks ago, but do they now?