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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (19 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Finglas to Killester cycleway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1282/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 707. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is an update on the visits by the National Council for Special Education to schools in Dublin 9 and 11 to assess the potential for extra ASD classes. [63072/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is Deputy Verona Murphy ahead of me?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Let me move to restate the comments made by Deputy Hourigan. I and my party are significantly supportive of the idea of a publicly funded broadcaster. Throughout the pandemic in particular, we have seen key programmes on RTÉ like “Morning Ireland” and “The Late Late Show” which have been crucial in communicating important public health messages, and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is there a total figure for the DAB trial?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I accept that if RTÉ was not to be an early adopter of technology, it would also be a bad thing. However, it is important that we know what it costs. What lessons might be learned or savings might be taken for other formats other than IP? Do we know how many listeners to RTÉ radio and television programmes now use smart speakers?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That relates to streamed content.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There is also an increasing use of RTÉ's content on social media platforms, such as Facebook and so on. Some of that is done by RTÉ, which broadcasts it for free on its accounts. Has there been any attempt to seek to gain benefits from the social media companies for the revenue that they are claiming by using content provided by RTÉ?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am thinking of the agreement between publishers in Australia and social media platforms regarding content. Much of the quality content on social media is content that has been paid for by the taxpayer through the licence fee. However, we are not gaining the advertising benefit from that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Can I be more specific? Is Ms Forbes saying that RTÉ has opened discussions with a number of social media companies to seek a commercial arrangement for the use of its content on their platforms?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Would Facebook be included in that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is there a reason why RTÉ has not approached the largest social media platform?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Let me move-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: -----RTÉ discontinued DAB, but it continued the radio stations, let us call them, although neither of those terms seems correct in the context of a digital format. The stations included RTÉ Gold, RTÉ 2XM and so on. Is there a significant cost implication in maintaining those stations?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Having led Ms Forbes up that path, let me now be more critical. One of my greatest criticisms of RTÉ is its complete lack of any sort of effective regional radio or television coverage for the Dublin market. The BBC managed to maintain two local radio stations on this island. RTÉ does not do that for the main capital city. Given that Ms Forbes has provided details around...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: My understanding is that would not prevent RTÉ from providing online Dublin-specific radio or news coverage.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I can hear Ms Forbes trying to articulate a good answer, but the reason she that cannot do so is because there is not a good product for the Dublin market. John Kilrane is a fantastic reporter, but he is one man. We have 1 million eyeballs in Dublin. The national broadcaster is seriously letting us down by not providing more Dublin-focused content.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am not sure if I have heard the Chairman's suggestion fully but it would be incumbent on the committee, having received the information, to also ask the Minister for Justice for an update. Every group of workers is fully entitled to take industrial action. I do not believe there is anything that we would like to do to undermine the workers' rights to take industrial action, but it is my...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am happy with that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jan 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am sorry, Chairman.