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

Rónán Mullen: I thank the witnesses for their answers. I know they cannot give every dog and devil a commitment they will reflect their views but I would ask them to consider doing an audit of the staff to see whether there is an excess of sameness of opinion across a range of issues, and whether this could be affecting RTÉ's output. I hope there is not the same institutional stonewalling going...

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

Rónán Mullen: I did not mention religious.

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

Rónán Mullen: An audit could be done and it could be done confidentially. RTÉ could try to establish whether it has a groupthink problem.

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

Rónán Mullen: That does not arise if it is confidential.

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

Rónán Mullen: If there is a sameness of viewpoints, and if there is an elite that all think the same way on a range of issues, that is not public service broadcasting of high quality.

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

Rónán Mullen: Mr. Bakhurst can find ways to do it. RTÉ has a duty to the public to ensure diversity of viewpoints.

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

Rónán Mullen: It is not just the issues that RTÉ covers; it is the issues that it does not cover.

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

Rónán Mullen: I thank Mr. Bakhurst for his answers.

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

Rónán Mullen: I think we need to focus on non-information as well, and the issues that just do not get covered. I do not think the system is capable of bringing that out. On religious affairs broadcasting and RTÉ's plans to deal with external partners, is it the intention to continue with the broadcasting of daily mass on RTÉ News Now, or Channel 21, which I know many people have found very...

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

Rónán Mullen: Has RTÉ measured the group? Does Mr. Bakhurst have any idea how large it is?

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

Rónán Mullen: Yes, for people who cannot get out.

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

Rónán Mullen: I could give chapter and verse on this all day.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: We need 6,000 GPs in this country to provide adequate primary care services to people. We only have approximately 4,500. The country has a shortfall of 1,500 GPs. Meanwhile, 30% of newly qualified GPs are emigrating, seeking better working conditions and opportunities. This haemorrhaging of doctors and nurses to the US, UK, Canada and Australia is a crisis. The Irish College of General...

Seanad: Public Health (Restriction on Sale of Stimulant Drinks to Children) Bill 2025: Second Stage (14 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister of State. I commend my colleague Senator Keogan on bringing forward this important Bill. I thank Senators Wilson, O'Reilly and others for supporting it. I am often struck when I am doing the family shopping of what a long way we still have to go in this country in getting people the information they need about the products they are purchasing. It may have to do with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I am an Independent Senator for the National University of Ireland. It is my first time on this committee and I am very glad to be on it and working with members. Areas of particular interest to me that might be connected with this committee in recent years include remuneration issues. With regard to RTÉ, I brought forward Private Members' legislation looking at the issue of keeping...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: This day last week the name Robert Francis Prevost would have been known to very few people in this House or elsewhere. A week on, he is arguably the most famous person in the world as Pope Leo XIV. He has certainly relegated you-know-who to the position of only being the second most intriguing and interesting person in the world and that is probably no bad thing in most people's view....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: In the context of congratulating our young friends from Birr a few minutes ago, I had a conversation with them, which turned to the topic of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, in which many of us have a great interest. We have our own very fine walking routes in Ireland, such as the increasingly popular St. Declan's Way between counties Tipperary and Waterford. There is also the famous...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 May 2025)

Rónán Mullen: It is about nine years since we presented in this House the Human Dignity Award to Gina Herrity, an heroic woman who has been working in Our Little Brothers and Sisters orphanage in Haiti since 1993. She has suffered violence in that chaotic country. She wrote to me last week and what she had to say was terrifying. She is asking people to give attention to what is happening in Haiti. She...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Rónán Mullen: First, I commend our leaders - President Higgins and Mrs. Higgins and our Taoiseach and Tánaiste - on representing our country so well at Pope Francis's funeral. Everybody will agree this was a deeply fascinating pontificate and the late Pope Francis was a voice of conscience on many issues. He made us all, whatever our views, sit up and think on many important issues of the day. Ar...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Rónán Mullen: The Department of the Taoiseach. It did it before anyway.