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- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: -----and even to us as a committee. I do not think anybody would disagree. All we ever got from them was lip service.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: Can you be confident that that executive board is completely disbanded?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: Of course it did.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: It said a lot, though, about where they were living in their own heads.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: Time will tell.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: Mr. Rory Coveney came in here and we tried to interrogate a little with him around Toy Show: The Musical. Minister, you and I both know, as other colleagues do, coming from an arts background, that €2 million is a staggering figure to be spent on a musical. When we tried to probe that first, Mr. Coveney said to me that it was commercially sensitive and that he could not answer the...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: I will stop you there, Minister, because I have a few more questions I want to get through.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: We are aware that some of your inquiries are looking at contractors going into RTÉ and representing de factomembers of staff of RTÉ. They have contractors, they have extracted themselves from being paid members of staff of RTÉ, but we are talking about the top talent, for example, who are represented by contractors outside RTÉ. I assume you find that problematic because...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: Do you think that is a way in which RTÉ can operate into the future?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: When will that conclude?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: On a different matter, I had the pleasure of meeting this morning with the Press Council and the Press Ombudsman, Susan McKay, and she raised a very interesting question. We talk a huge amount about funding for public service broadcasting into the future. We talk about broadcasting. What are your thoughts on how the print media should be funded into the future?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: I have one final question, going back to RTÉ. Have you had any contact from Ms Forbes since this whole debacle broke?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: Thank you, Minister. Does anybody have a quick-fire question? We will go around the room. Deputy Dillon, you first.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: To conclude-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: Does Senator Ahearn have any questions?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: Quick, fire ahead.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: Maybe the Senator can chat to the Minister afterwards.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: To conclude-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister and officials from her Department for being with us today. Sorry, Deputy Andrews would like to come in.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Deputy Andrews. That concludes our meeting with the Minister and her officials. I thank the members of the press who have been here throughout the entire debate.