Results 101-120 of 171 for speaker:Alison Comyn

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2025)

Alison Comyn: I do not have time for any more questions.

Seanad: Situation in Gaza: Statements (29 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: I thank the Minister of State for attending today and the Tánaiste before him. Unfortunately, two minutes simply do not allow for enough words to describe the horror, the anger and, to borrow the words of the Tánaiste, the repulsion I feel watching 600 days of atrocities in Gaza. What little time I have must contain words like condemn, genocide and slaughter of innocent people. I...

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

Alison Comyn: On a slightly more positive note, looking at the JNLR figures, I can see that RTÉ is still a valuable and valued asset. We need to keep tight control of that and make sure it continues. I am new to the committee. I am slightly disappointed that we are starting another year in a new committee with a fresh financial impairment. The first contribution from Deputy Byrne alluded to the...

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

Alison Comyn: Mr. Bakhurst was very clear that he faced challenges and there were very serious financial impairments in previous years. Is he concerned that there is a need-to-know basis and that they took it upon themselves that he should not know about this?

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

Alison Comyn: Is Mr. Bakhurst satisfied that this need-to-know basis is completely gone?

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

Alison Comyn: We have the opportunity to get Mr. Bakhurst in a room and interrogate him.

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

Alison Comyn: Are the 228 redundancies broken down into particular departments? Is there one outstanding department that is looking for redundancies?

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

Alison Comyn: I noticed Ms McCarthy shaking her head when Deputy Cleere spoke about discontent in the newsroom over the new promotional video. I have worked in newsrooms over the past 30 years. I have not worked in RTÉ but I have worked in Sky News, the BBC and UTV Ireland. I know this is built on not being "us and them". It is built on good morale. There are reports of newsroom staff not being...

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

Alison Comyn: Let us address some more of the misinformation. There have been suggestions that people were brought in to cover a more diverse aspect of our communities. Is this correct? If so, does that acknowledge that RTÉ, particularly in the newsroom, has a lack of diversity?

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

Alison Comyn: Is this promotional video now being scrapped and another one started?

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

Alison Comyn: Does Mr. Bakhurst accept that it has been mentioned that every church now or every religious location has got its own broadcasting facilities? It was usually fitted over the Covid-19 years. There is going to be a significant drop in quality of, for example, the special services. In my own area, they are looking for St. Oliver's mass for the 400th anniversary and are mentioning that it will...

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

Alison Comyn: No, it is fine.

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

Alison Comyn: Given that the redundancy programme is three and a half times oversubscribed, how confident is RTÉ, in the context of the big disparity between what a journalist earns and what some of the presenting talent earns, that it will be able to attract quality journalists in the future?

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

Alison Comyn: How is RTÉ addressing that challenge?

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

Alison Comyn: Does that involve offering more money or perhaps better use of regional journalism as well? Ms McCarthy mentioned how expensive it is to be based in the capital.

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

Alison Comyn: We all want journalism to be moved out into the regions to reflect more societies and communities. Is that a possibility?

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

Alison Comyn: Will there be new offices or new bureaus opened?

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

Alison Comyn: With the recent announcement of the outsourcing of the broadcasting of religious services, is there a concerted effort to phase out religious content in RTÉ?

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

Alison Comyn: Is there a commitment that there will be more journalists out in the field, outside of Dublin?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Alison Comyn: Colette Campbell, Theresa Morgan and Bernie Cranley are the names of three of the five women who so tragically lost their lives over the weekend on Irish roads. A driver, three pedestrians and a cyclist, these women were killed in counties Clare, Meath, Wexford, Louth and Tyrone, four within an eight-hour period, bringing the number of fatalities on our roads so far this year to 67,...