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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)

Timmy Dooley: I get both that and point on the accuracy of the information, but the probity of the work that was done was there. There was a miscommunication, and we accept that, but the probity and governance are what is really important. Fair enough, she got a bit of information wrong. The Minister referred to numerous occasions, but it was numerous occasions relating to the same issue. It was...

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)

Timmy Dooley: I know, but, in religious parlance, it is a venial sin in comparison with the actual governance issues. Obviously, that is my view; the Minister has explained her view. The Minister stated that she got the calls going out in the car. I am a bit confused about that. When more than one person knows information, it will get out. Why did the Minister think she had a duty to leak 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)

Timmy Dooley: On the one hand, Minister, you said earlier that you flagged to the former chair that if you were asked, you would address the issue on "Prime Time". You flagged that at 4 p.m. or 4.30 p.m. Then you went out to RTÉ and flagged it yourself in order that you were going to be asked the question. Maybe RTÉ had the information, but you seem to suggest that you flagged it to them. Do...

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)

Timmy Dooley: Why did you not say to her, "I am going to leak this information to 'Prime Time', they will ask me about it and this is what I will say"?

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)

Timmy Dooley: To somebody else.

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)

Timmy Dooley: You talked at the beginning of the meeting about setting the record straight and about transparency and openness. You were only going to offer transparency and openness if somebody else heard about 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)

Timmy Dooley: You indicated that-----

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)

Timmy Dooley: You would always answer honestly, but you actually gave the question to RTÉ to ask you, to say there is something coming. They do not seem to have known about it. Why did you not issue a press release, rather than giving it in the back door to RTÉ when you got out there?

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)

Timmy Dooley: Okay. We will move to the last point. Do you have confidence in the members of the board who sat through the Toy Show The Musical debacle?

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)

Timmy Dooley: You have confidence in a group of people who, on the basis of their own admission and their apology before us here, admitted they did not really do their job to the best of their ability, ask appropriate questions or tease it through. It was a bit like they thought, expected and assumed but did not ask the questions and were not told. Some of these people were appointed at the discretion of...

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)

Timmy Dooley: I accept that and the Minister is very clear on that. The Minister's position with regard to other executives stands true in that but not with respect to members of the board because the committees recommend and the Government appoints, but it is on the advice of the Minister, in the same way that the chair is appointed by the Government on the advice of the Minister. If there are failures...

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)

Timmy Dooley: Does the Minister have confidence in their actions as they sat on the board because it was within their tenure, albeit some of it was perhaps outside the tenure of the Minister? They are now the responsibility of the Minister so my final question is to ask the Minister whether she has confidence in the members of the board who were there at the time and upon whose watch this happened.

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)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister very much for her answers and for taking my questions.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I ask the Deputy Leader at the earliest opportunity to arrange a debate in the House with the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, about Circular 0002/2024, which was issued recently. I spoke to a number of principals in east Clare yesterday evening who made clear to me that this will impact significantly on the work they do as principals. As a result of this circular, they see a further...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome and thank the Minister for his presentation. For far too long the debate around climate change has been one that has been couched in negative language; it is around what we must stop doing, what we cannot do anymore and the burden of change that is put on us. I like to look at it a bit differently, insofar as one can, in recognising the opportunities that exist from climate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: A transition-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: Yes.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: Much like others, I want to be associated with remarks in relation to the actions that need to be taken to address the crisis that has unfolded in the Gaza Strip. I had an opportunity to reflect on that yesterday. I again ask the Leader to try to arrange a debate in this House, if possible, at the earliest possible opportunity to discuss migration and related issues. I raised this issue...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I thank everybody for the presentation. It is no harm every now and again to remind ourselves, notwithstanding how drastically wrong things went at RTÉ and what a catastrophe it has been, that nobody personally benefited. People made decisions for whatever reason. As many of the main actors are not here, it is hard to get to the motivation but nobody benefited personally from it....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: My colleague Senator Warfield spoke about the funding model and he threw around certain accusations against the Government. That is fair enough. That is the politics of it. The model I have long-believed is the way forward is a household charge. I shared that in a paper we devised a number of years ago and that it should be collected by Revenue. I have a concern at the notion of it...