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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Alison Comyn: I am glad to hear that. I am conscious of time. I will put a similar question to Coimisiún na Meán. How does it intend to protect and promote local and community broadcasting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Alison Comyn: That may bring the Department in. How can we protect those jobs? There has been tremendous work. Sadly, I missed the boat on it but there has been tremendous work done on local democracy. How can we protect the actual assets, the publications they are working with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Alison Comyn: My next question is for RTÉ. What is its position on the proposed changes to the licence fee and the funding model under the broadcasting Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Alison Comyn: I may get a chance to touch on it later but I will introduce it now. We have not really discussed harmful content online. What internal policies does RTÉ have to monitor harmful content on its digital platforms?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Alison Comyn: However, RTÉ will have new obligations on content moderation, particularly on its social media and streaming platforms. Is it across them? Does it have internal policies for them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Alison Comyn: I do not have time for any more questions.

Seanad: Situation in Gaza: Statements (29 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: I thank the Minister of State for attending today and the Tánaiste before him. Unfortunately, two minutes simply do not allow for enough words to describe the horror, the anger and, to borrow the words of the Tánaiste, the repulsion I feel watching 600 days of atrocities in Gaza. What little time I have must contain words like condemn, genocide and slaughter of innocent people. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: On a slightly more positive note, looking at the JNLR figures, I can see that RTÉ is still a valuable and valued asset. We need to keep tight control of that and make sure it continues. I am new to the committee. I am slightly disappointed that we are starting another year in a new committee with a fresh financial impairment. The first contribution from Deputy Byrne alluded to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: Mr. Bakhurst was very clear that he faced challenges and there were very serious financial impairments in previous years. Is he concerned that there is a need-to-know basis and that they took it upon themselves that he should not know about this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: Is Mr. Bakhurst satisfied that this need-to-know basis is completely gone?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: We have the opportunity to get Mr. Bakhurst in a room and interrogate him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: Are the 228 redundancies broken down into particular departments? Is there one outstanding department that is looking for redundancies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: I noticed Ms McCarthy shaking her head when Deputy Cleere spoke about discontent in the newsroom over the new promotional video. I have worked in newsrooms over the past 30 years. I have not worked in RTÉ but I have worked in Sky News, the BBC and UTV Ireland. I know this is built on not being "us and them". It is built on good morale. There are reports of newsroom staff not being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: Let us address some more of the misinformation. There have been suggestions that people were brought in to cover a more diverse aspect of our communities. Is this correct? If so, does that acknowledge that RTÉ, particularly in the newsroom, has a lack of diversity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: Is this promotional video now being scrapped and another one started?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: Does Mr. Bakhurst accept that it has been mentioned that every church now or every religious location has got its own broadcasting facilities? It was usually fitted over the Covid-19 years. There is going to be a significant drop in quality of, for example, the special services. In my own area, they are looking for St. Oliver's mass for the 400th anniversary and are mentioning that it will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: No, it is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: Given that the redundancy programme is three and a half times oversubscribed, how confident is RTÉ, in the context of the big disparity between what a journalist earns and what some of the presenting talent earns, that it will be able to attract quality journalists in the future?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: How is RTÉ addressing that challenge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: Does that involve offering more money or perhaps better use of regional journalism as well? Ms McCarthy mentioned how expensive it is to be based in the capital.