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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Does Deputy McGrath want to leave a little bit of time for a response?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Do any of the other witnesses want to respond?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: It has been said by the clerk that the Deputy has identified some officials and that he needs to withdraw that.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Deputy McGrath has used his time. Deputy Ring is next. He has 12 minutes.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: I will begin by stating that Deputy Mattie McGrath's comments are his own personal ones, not those of the committee. I want to come to some questions. Ms O'Connor stated that she assisted with Mr. Bakhurst to meet the staff of "Fair City" and "The Late Late Show". I appreciate that plans and strategies involve a settling-in period. I wonder if Ms O'Connor could describe the mood of the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Transferable.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Mobility between different departments has not been there up to now.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: They would state of the art.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: That brings me on nicely to my next question. We have seen many high-profile presenters exiting 2FM. Can Mr. Bakhurst comment on that? Is there a particular reason for those departures? Can we expect more of them?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: It is new territory, and, I suppose, the waters are choppy.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: It is fair to say that the station is going through a transition.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Turning to Ms McCarthy, the head of news and current affairs, I commend the work of Laura Hogan. I am thinking about the Border area and North of Ireland too, where Vincent Kearney does great work reporting and broadcasting. We are particularly interested in the context of elections, etc., but on an ongoing basis too. In terms of the future strategy for RTÉ, and not just in news and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Good. Moving to the elements and genres within the organisation for culture, children-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Okay. That is all from me. I wish everyone the best of luck. I appreciate that it is and continues to be a challenging time for RTÉ. It is difficult when strategies and plans are being introduced and I think we all have to give these plans a chance to bed in, as they will. Senator Byrne will now take the Chair if I can be excused. Two more of my colleagues have questions for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the witnesses for coming today. I also thank Deputy MacSharry for bringing forward this sensible Bill. I listened to both organisations with an open mind and they have completely convinced me that this is a practical Bill. While I do not dismiss what Ms McKiernan said about there being extra complications and concern about uploading the financial burden and all the rest, that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: I want to go back to Ms McKiernan's presentation, which talked about buyer beware being the premise one always starts out with at the sale of a house.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Would that not give greater confidence to somebody who wants to buy a house? When someone comes to you to do the buying of the property and he or she can produce all this documentation that states it is a good house, it is sturdy, it has the construction, the planning, no retention is required and so on. Would that not give you greater confidence and cut out a lot of the over and back...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: We know all of that. We know broadly that it is planning and retention, it is all of those things-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: I am just trying to get an answer. If someone who wants to buy a home comes to you and can give you the seller's pack with all of this documentation, does that not make your job a lot easier?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Niamh Smyth: That speaks to what Mr. Garrett was saying, in that one can do that, but does it not make time and cost more efficient when there is a document in front of you that gives so much information without having to spends months on it? I acknowledge there will always be further teasing out that has to be done but is it not that a lot of the donkey work or spade work, if you like, has already been...