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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: Is that not effectively the case then, that the chair had basically said she was going to resign?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: I appreciate that, Minister, but if the chair was to say to you she was going to resign if you sent her that letter, surely at that stage you knew that was it.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: Your chair came back to you and said, "If you send that letter I am going to resign." What is the point of having a meeting on the Friday morning if the chair had already indicated she was going to resign?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: I appreciate you saying it was so astounding, but ultimately the chair is your link and reports to you. If it is so astounding, would you not just say this is it, this is the end of the relationship?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: This is where I come to the question of a breakdown in communication and trust. Essentially what you are telling us is there was a breakdown in trust. If there was a breakdown in communication, that happens quite often and there can be clarity. Here you are saying there was something astounding said to you by the chair. The chair was saying, "You send a letter and I am going to resign."...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: You said earlier, however, there were a number of instances where you did not feel you were getting accurate information. To suddenly come to this conclusion I just find difficult. Given the close relationship between the director general and the chair and the support she enjoyed from the board which is now evident, did it occur to the Minister that there was a serious risk of the director...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: The Minister has indicated that she has full confidence in the director general of RTÉ and the direction in which he is taking the organisation. Does the Minister have full confidence in the board of RTÉ as well?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: I have two questions on future issues. One is the intention to appoint a new chair. Are discussions going on about this? Will he or she be an interim chair? Is there a decision to have a full-time or part-time chair in place? When will that appointment be made? My second point is on the bigger-picture issue. When does the Minister intend to bring a paper to the Cabinet regarding the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: Is it correct to say that the Minister is sounding out individuals out at the moment?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: We certainly share that view. Will we see movement on this by April or May?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: I am conscious and appreciative, Minister, that you and your officials have come before us to address this issue. From having listened to it, what is clear is that there was a breakdown in trust between yourself and the chair. When there is a breakdown in trust between a Minister and a chair, with respect, there is only one eventual outcome, namely, that the chair is likely to have to go....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: It still comes then to the fact that the way you told it, Minister, is that Siún Ní Raghallaigh, as chair of RTÉ - your direct link - refused to receive a letter where you would have expressed particular concerns essentially about her performance and basically expressed a view that she was going to resign.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: You still went on "Prime Time" knowing all of that in the background. Was it not inevitable, though, knowing all of that, that there was only going to be one outcome? If the chair of any other agency within your wide-ranging remit came to you and either threatened to resign or refused to receive a letter, would you accept it?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: I would like the Minister to answer, if possible.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach under Seanad Standing Order 116 on a proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing harmonised requirements in the Internal Market on transparency of interest representation carried out on behalf of third countries and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: Are you free this weekend?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank Members for their contributions. Senators Dooley and Conway raised again the situation at University Hospital Limerick. As the Leader indicated yesterday, it is hoped to try to have a debate on this issue. There is a question as to why it is that Limerick is always in the news, unlike any other hospital in the country. I look at what we have been able to do in Waterford and...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: I move: That Seanad Éireann: (1) notes the agreed Report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach under Standing Order 116 on the following proposal: Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing harmonised requirements in the internal market on transparency of interest representation carried out on...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Electoral Process (5 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. As the Minister of State knows, we will have a referendum on Friday. We do not know what the results will be but it is certain that we will see the closure of thousands of primary schools all around the country to facilitate the vote. While I appreciate this may bring some joy to some of the students and indeed the staff, it causes childcare...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Electoral Process (5 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Byrne: I join the Minister of State in thanking all of those involved in the electoral process because, without them, we would not have the democracy that we have. While this causes inconvenience to schools, the Minister of State will be aware that one of the primary reasons that I raise this as a concern is the effect on parents. If a school closes and they have existing childcare arrangements,...