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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I thank Ms Forbes and the other witnesses for coming before the committee. Does Ms Forbes accept that the idea of a ringfenced tax to fund public service broadcasting in general, and RTÉ in particular, may be an idea that has run its course when we do not have, for example, a housing levy to deal with the crisis of homelessness that we face or other more acute problems we face as a society?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I am a mere Senator, by the way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Part of the difficulty here is that people have a difficulty in their minds deciding what is public servicing broadcasting and what is not. I refer to a block grant approach. This commission will help us, as a society, to have a more serious think about what elements are indispensable. Objective news and current affairs would seem to be indispensable. The public, however much it might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Perhaps we do not have time at this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Currently, I am working with the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Advisers on possible Private Members' legislation that would regulate the issue of higher pay, such that it would be linked to public service pay scales. I have been surprised at the positivity that I have received to that proposal, not from the public where one might expect that there would be a lot of people who would agree...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Ms Forbes might address the point around salaries

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Why?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Rónán Mullen: It has happened in other areas.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (3 Dec 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Curaim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I thank the Minister of State for his attendance here today and for his willingness to engage on this important matter. During the Order of Business last week I highlighted an immediate threat to the provision of services for members of the disability community, specifically to the services provided by the National Platform of Self Advocates. As...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (3 Dec 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Of course what he said after his scripted speech will be welcomed. It was more significant than much of what was in the scripted part. It is on the record and that is appreciated. Obviously, the questions of when and how much will be of great interest to the platform. I thank the Minister of State for that. My underlying concern - one I have...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I congratulate the four winners of last weekend's by-elections and wish them well for their time in the Oireachtas. In the same way one would sympathise with a person who did not do the lotto on the weekend his or her favourite six numbers were picked out, we ought to sympathise with the person who would have won the fifth by-election that would have taken place in Cork North Central had the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2019)

Rónán Mullen: When I read last weekend that the Dublin broadcasting branch of the National Union of Journalists, NUJ, had called for presenters' fees at RTÉ to be capped at the top rate of Civil Service pay, I was pleased to see that journalists were responding to public disquiet about excessive pay at the State broadcaster, especially at a time when RTÉ has a major budget deficit. This motion...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Could the Brexit committee change its remit, perhaps?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2019)

Rónán Mullen: We do not want to set up too many new committees if we could repurpose some of the existing committees.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Has he a vote in the Seanad elections?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2019)

Rónán Mullen: He just wants security of tenure.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I am glad to say that this is one problem with which rural Ireland is not plagued.

Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am very glad we have the opportunity to discuss this important matter today. I am not among those who has sought to score any political points or misrepresent the facts of this situation in any way, or indeed say anything to detract from the Minister of State's reputation as somebody who is deeply concerned about the services for persons with...

Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)

Rónán Mullen: Nothing in his speech suggested that he has been listening to the shock and disquiet of so many people, principally the service users and their families. There was nothing in his speech to give any comfort to those people. At Thursday's committee meeting, I called for a stay of execution on this decision. I am always suspicious when I hear people mounting up the arguments for what they...

Seanad: Imminent Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort: Statements (27 Nov 2019)

Rónán Mullen: The Government has the power to make an executive decision, use its clout and say to Cuisle to stall the closure and see what can be done to save the venue. I would be really grateful, as would a lot of people, and as a Galway man who comes from a place that is very close to this setting if the Minister would agree we need a second thought on this and will see what decision we can come to...