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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)

Neasa Hourigan: Is it being developed or is it in place?

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)

Neasa Hourigan: I suspect, since we are not entirely sure how much of the licence fee is going towards employees more generally, that it would be difficult to outline how much of the licence fee goes specifically towards programmes that are in the category of public interest or within the remit of RTÉ's public responsibility. Is it fair to say that it is hard to identify that within the licence fee?

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)

Neasa Hourigan: I am mindful that I will run out of time in about five minutes so I ask the witnesses to keep the responses relatively short.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: Within each strand of a network, is it possible to identify particular programmes, such as news programmes, that satisfy the remit?

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)

Neasa Hourigan: For example, “Operation Transformation” would still be considered part of that public money and be publicly funded.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: Is that the way RTÉ intends to work going forward?

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)

Neasa Hourigan: I take that point and maybe this is a broader question but if we are providing State and taxpayer funding to our national broadcaster on the basis that it will provide programmes in the national interest-----

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)

Neasa Hourigan: -----are we also asking for information on programming provided that is not in the national interest?

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)

Neasa Hourigan: I might reframe the question a little. Last year, a number of organisations that concern themselves with eating disorders and health issues made the point that programmes such as "Operation Transformation" are damaging. For an organisation that has a public mandate and is explicitly mandated to operate in the public interest, where is the test of how RTÉ is doing that and who decides...

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)

Neasa Hourigan: When undertaking a programme such as that, does RTÉ have standards or is there a group to which it reaches out to review whether it is on the right end of the argument?

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)

Neasa Hourigan: Will Ms Forbes clarify what she means by "independent research"? Who undertook that?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (20 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 34. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress on a national policy on flooding which was to have regard to climate change and was committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2551/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Programme for Government (20 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 56. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures to be undertaken by his Department in 2022 to progress the Programme for Government commitment to a well-being framework; if Budget 2023 will be in compliance with this commitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2411/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 299. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated by the National Gender Service in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and 2021 respectively; and the number of persons currently on a waiting list to access their services. [2795/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (20 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 300. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated under the HSE National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and 2021 respectively; and the number of persons currently on a waiting list to access the programme. [2796/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Just to finish up on that point, a comment was made that we do not have the numbers on the care plans. Could we be provided with those figures after the session? I would be interested in knowing if they are being collected and if we have access to them. I want to return to the North Inner City Drugs and Alcohol Task Force for a moment. I am still slightly unclear. I would appreciate if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Does the task force have access to that fund now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I am not asking about a process of asking for the money. Is the organisation in receipt of funds now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is Mr. Walsh aware of when there was last a meeting on that issue with the task force?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is that specifically around the issue of funding? During this session, we have talked about a consultation process.