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- Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: That is a really important point. The committee is well aware that we are constantly referring to other legislation while we are trying to deal with this legislation. I do not want to use the word "frustrating" but it is no small thing. The witnesses' submission pointed us to the report from the UN regarding Ireland and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. One of...
- Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Under mental health on page 12, there is a section called "Suicide". It states: In the light of its general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child , the Committee recommends that the State party further strengthen its measures on the prevention of suicide, which should take into account the specific needs of...
- Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: That is the UN statement.
- Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: My question is more about inpatient facilities. We are talking a lot about capacity and the removal of freedom from people. Is there a particular strand that we need to think about when looking at this legislation, relating to the removal of freedom versus the need to strengthen suicide prevention and keep people safe?
- Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)
Neasa Hourigan: Dr. Muldoon has answered it. The strengthening of the child's voice and capacity will do some of that work.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I will do my best on time. I am watching the clock. I welcome everybody this morning. I am pleased that we found time for this session. I know we are going to talk a lot about the licence fee and the justification for it. I am very proud of the fact that we have a publicly funded national broadcaster. That is incredibly important. We are all trying to reach a sustainable long-term...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: That is five-years old now.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry. I do not mean to cut across Ms Forbes, but did one of those actions involve publishing gender pay information?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: As Ms Forbes knows, that is not the gender pay gap information that is required in the public realm.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Is Ms Forbes saying RTÉ does not have that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: With the best will in the world, during the process of preparing for this session I have read through reams of information about licence fees and remuneration for employees and contractors. I find it hard to believe that RTÉ could not compile a report on the gender pay gap if An Post and other groups can do it, considering the fact that one of RTÉ’s remits is around...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: RTÉ will not publish gender pay gap information until the Bill is passed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I cannot accept that RTÉ is unable to provide that information if similar semi-State bodies are able to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Is it not simply the case that a choice has been made not to do it given that the numbers RTÉ is working with are five years old?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: As somebody who has worked in policy for quite a long time, the way of calculating the gender pay gap has been in the public sphere for well over five years, certainly since 2017 when RTÉ’s first report was done. If there was a will within the organisation to provide that information, it would have been done. Is Ms Forbes telling me RTÉ could not do it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I am delighted to hear Ms Forbes talk about having a diversity lead and a programme of reform but failing to focus on this issue when it has been in the public realm so much is a choice on the part of the institution. Considering RTÉ’s remit as a State-supported body, to wait for legislation to force it to publish gender pay gap information is unfortunate. What percentage of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Ms Forbes does not have the figure for employees more generally.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: I do not want to go too far into the Eversheds report. Was there a dispute process in place before the report in 2018 for contractors or freelancers who felt they had been misclassified as self-employed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: Is a process in place now for freelancers or contractors within RTÉ who feel they have been mistreated or misclassified?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022) Neasa Hourigan: For clarity, if I was working now and had a concern, is there an outlined process in place to query my status?