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- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: I tried to get this answer earlier from the director general.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: Has an estimated figure been received by the director general, in the context of a situation where all those people who were previously categorised as self-employed workers and who are now RTÉ workers, all of those with cases outside of Eversheds and whose situations I raised here in the committee last week, of what the cost would be to retrospectively compensate these workers for their...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: I looked for this figure earlier and I did not get it.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: I did not ask that. I asked did you get a figure-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: I asked a simple question.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: I asked a simple question. Did you get an estimated figure to regularise-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: Have you been given an estimated figure?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: I am sorry. Have you been given an estimated figure?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: It is a simple question.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: Have you been given an estimated figure?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: Thank you.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: It is a yes-no question.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: I wish to address this question to Ms Cusack. Earlier, she described signing off on an exit package worth €450,000 of public money for Breda O'Keeffe as an administrative oversight. Four hours later, do you wish to change those words?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: One last thing-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: There could be people who were positive in a scope context, right, but who were outside of Eversheds. You know who these people are-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (20 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: 80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the up-to-date position on the hot school meals programme; if she will provide details of the scheme in County Kerry; her future plans for Kerry schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7852/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (20 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: I concur with previous speakers. I thank the Minister for her work on this.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (20 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: No, not about the mouldy bread, although I think that is how penicillin was discovered. There might be some upsides to it. Big pharma in Waterford might develop a new drug. I thank the Minister for being so proactive in this. I was just doing the mathematics. I am not a mathematician, but break downing the €2.1 million servicing 34 schools in County Kerry where 3,854 children...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: 59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the detail of the expansion of child benefit for over 18s in full-time education; if she will address how the scheme will apply to 18-year-olds who will turn 18 before 1 May 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7851/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: I thank the Minister for her comprehensive response on the previous question. This question relates to the expansion of child benefit to over-18s in full-time education. Will the Minister outline the changes to the House and address in particular what the technical response will be to people who turn 18 before 1 May of this year?