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Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Does the Minister believe that it is appropriate that the organisation would be referring employees to the legal route when they raise these issues with RTÉ?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Does it concern the Minister to hear that this is what is happening?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Has there been a further dip in the TV licence figures for the month of January? Has there been an impact as a result of the most recent publications of reports concerning issues at RTÉ?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Is that for renewals or new licences?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Is that for the entire month?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Is the figure versus January 2023?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: What was the overall loss for 2023?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Realistically, we are talking about 26% for the second half of the year because it only kicked in on 1 July. What was the total revenue lost?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Wow. That probably would have settled the employees’ situation. I thank the Chair.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: I want to ask the Minister about free-to-air sports event in the future. Could she update the committee on where she is at in that regard and what progress has been made on it?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: What is the process after 20 February?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Does the Minister expect that this is something that should be concluded in a matter of weeks? Is it a rapid enough process?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: On the TV licence, has RTÉ recommenced advertising the licence outside its own channels?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Bizarrely, RTÉ has not advertised the TV licence since July, at a time it has been losing massive amounts of licence revenue. In that time when the €20 million plus was lost, the TV licence had not been advertised outside of RTÉ. Why did it take so long for RTÉ to recommence advertising?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Will there be a change in the messaging or a specific emphasis given that it is not just RTÉ that benefits from licence fee revenue and that independent broadcasters and news agencies benefit from it as well?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: And the independent producers. Will the Minister reconsider the fact that the advertising of the licence is almost nobody's child at the moment? RTÉ does it but at this stage should control be taken by the Department? To be fair, when the proverbial hit the fan in the summer, RTÉ did not stand up and we could not rely on it to do it. Does the Minister think it is something for...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 212. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what follow-up she gave to correspondence relating to allegations of historic bullying within RTÉ (details supplied); if she or a representative has engaged with the individual with a view to resolving the matter; how she intends to deal with similar cases surfacing in relation to RTÉ; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 213. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the up-to-date weekly figures regarding TV licence renewal and purchase of TV licences for January 2024 versus January 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5996/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 214. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department contributes in any way to the monetary cost of the advertisement of the TV licence fee on platforms; if she will outline details of such expenditure; if she and her Department contribute to the formulation of messaging in any such advertising; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5997/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (8 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 828 of 13 June and 829 of 13 June 2023, what if any benefits accrued to Department of Social Protection employees who were former community welfare officers under the HSE and who paid a 5% levy on their incomes from October 2011 to December 2015; if no pension benefit has accrued in...