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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: The Obelisk Bridge at Oldbridge in Drogheda has been closed since August for restoration, and will be closed until May 2024. It was closed without any sort of traffic management plan, and has caused traffic chaos. It was the only crossing for people living in the immediate vicinity to get from the north to the south side of Drogheda. As a result of that, people are now forced to use the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to make provision for additional school bus places for secondary school students travelling from Collon to Ardee, County Louth, as the number of students requiring school bus places exceeds the required minimum number of ten eligible children residing in a distinct locality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41138/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Disability Services (26 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: 304. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail the funding streams an organisation (details supplied) can apply to for a mobile wheelchair pool hoist, which costs approximately €12,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41662/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (26 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: 334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to intervene with the Approved Housing Body, Clúid Housing, regarding a stipulation in their tenancy agreement (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41139/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (26 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: 405. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown, in tabular form of all funding received by Drogheda Implementation Board; the source of the funding and detailing if it is new funding specifically for Drogheda or funding from previously existing government funding streams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41140/23]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: I welcome everybody. I wish to come back on the 10% pay increase for the executive board. To phrase it as best I can in relation to the reaction from the public, it was insult on top of injury. We sat at multiple Oireachtas hearings and committee hearings and not once was it mentioned. Nobody on the board, many of whom were here and are here today again, mentioned it. It was bad enough...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: No, not necessarily. It was the failure of the board itself in giving the information, bearing in mind that RTÉ is constantly looking for extra funding and saying it is in a dire financial state. The board did not even mention the fact, for example, that the former director general went from €306,000 to €316,000. She was hardly waiting on the extra €10,000 but she...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Okay. Does Mr. Bakhurst accept that RTÉ has lost the confidence of the public to the tune of €21 million in licence fee renewals by year end? Does he accept RTÉ is on the verge of bankruptcy, could very easily go bust, and is in a perilous financial situation? Yet, when he responded on the matter of the 10% pay increase, he said that to be fair to the executive board, it...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Is RTÉ in a perilous financial situation?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: That was what I said.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: If RTÉ continues in the spiral it is going on and is not restored, bankruptcy could well be a possibility.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: I will move on to a matter referenced in some of the documents we were furnished with. It relates to allowances. More than €4 million was paid in allowances. Some of them are perfectly understandable, including shift and call-out allowances, etc. However, one allowance is under the category "personal". An allowance just short of €500,000 in total was availed of by 46...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: I will come to that, and it is part of it, but this is in relation to the parts of the allowances that are paid people who are on air, and whether they are already being paid for being on air. What are they?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: But are they already paid for presenting. This is an allowance on top of the salary they are being paid.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: In the case that Mr. Bakhurst has specified there, does this apply to all 46 in receipt of that allowance?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: I have a couple of other questions and perhaps later-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: I will ask the other questions in relation to that as well.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: We definitely need more detail on the breakdown of those 46. Is it the case of somebody just covering, or are there people who are already being paid for being on air and getting an allowance?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Does Mr. Bakhurst have a breakdown on how many are in receipt of multiple allowances? I am sure that is there somewhere.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Bakhurst referred to the car allowance. Do any of the 61 people who are in receipt of the car allowance actually have no driving licence? Is there anyone at all?