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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Control of Firearms (5 Jul 2023)
Verona Murphy: I am not shouting you down. I am asking-----
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Control of Firearms (5 Jul 2023)
Verona Murphy: Can we go back to the 2004 model?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Control of Firearms (5 Jul 2023)
Verona Murphy: That was not my statement.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Control of Firearms (5 Jul 2023)
Verona Murphy: Can we go back to the 2004 model?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Control of Firearms (5 Jul 2023)
Verona Murphy: I wish to discuss the purpose for which the firearms expert committee was set up, why it was established and what were the wide-ranging matters relating to firearms on which the Minister of State needed advice. It is not long since I asked him a series of questions related to the firearms expert committee, which were mainly based on the serious concerns brought to me by members of...
- Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)
Verona Murphy: I am sharing time with Deputy Shanahan. The last two weeks have been catastrophic, not only for RTÉ but for its staff and the public seeing the demise of our independent public broadcaster. We heard of a scheme designed to cover up payments to the presenter Ryan Tubridy, that if revealed, would contradict the fact that he was supposed to have taken an 11% pay cut. Thereafter the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their appearance. At a time when we have the greatest housing catastrophe in the history of our State, we have overspending in our Department of Health and there are no checks and balances, billions have been wasted annually. We have a Government that displays complete incompetence in the management of the public finances. This story comes out of a clear blue sky...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: I am sorry but I cannot hear Mr. Lynch for some reason.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: And the director of content is not here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: Was that decision put before the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: Is Mr. Lynch telling me that in his capacity with someone who is not here – the director of content – he made a decision, which in effect has exposed RTÉ and the taxpayer to hundreds of thousands if not millions in compensation? That is the decision made by him.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: So Mr. Lynch made that decision. What was his rationale? He made the statement also that he has done nothing wrong.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: Is Mr. Lynch saying now that he did something wrong?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: So Mr. Lynch continues with the statement that Ryan Tubridy has done nothing wrong.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: Is there a difference? Is Mr. Lynch inferring a difference?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: Does Mr. Lynch think when it comes to compensation there will be a difference? Because they will only be interested in the legal element of it. We are back with the question I put to Mr. Lynch. Will he resign over the compensation that will be paid to Ryan Tubridy?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: That is a binary question. The answer would be "Yes" or "No". Will he resign and make himself accountable for a decision that he can be sure has ruined Ryan Tubridy? He has been taken off the air under the assertion by RTÉ that he has done nothing wrong. Mr. Lynch did not say that he did not do anything illegal. He said he had done nothing wrong. I am sure that will be brought up a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: The decision was made by Mr. Lynch with just one other. I will turn to Ms Ní Raghallaigh. Is she happy that, without a shadow of a doubt, she has been exposed now, as the chair of RTÉ, to compensation? We are all of a frame of mind here commercially that we know the realm of these types of things will run into hundreds of thousands, if not millions. He is not the only person who...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: No-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Verona Murphy: Excuse me for one second-----