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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: So-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Chairman is putting me under pressure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: What additional funding is assumed in the strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: That amounts to €90 million over three years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Ms O'Keeffe is saying that to achieve stability, in addition to savings of €20 million per year, and, cumulatively, €60 million, the strategy is based on the expectation of getting an additional €90 million over that three years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: That is, €30 million per year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: That is, €10 million on top of the existing funding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: One leaves but an 11th person comes in and changes the dynamic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I will make a couple of final points. I, too, lend my support for the retention of Lyric FM in Limerick. I hope the decision will be taken on sound grounds rather than on a request from the Taoiseach. It would not be appropriate for RTÉ to make a decision based on a request from the Taoiseach just because he is ponying up €10 million of taxpayers' money. The business case...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: How often does Ms Forbes address staff? How often are town hall meetings held?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: There are a couple more parts to that. We are nearly at the end now-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I was hoping there was some kind of plan to address that. Sometimes it is a matter of accepting the reality, like "newsflash - we are all going to die". A crisis can be viewed as an existential one or just problems to be solved, working on morale. Perhaps this is something to address. What is Ms Cusack's view on the freelance contributors and the implications?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: What about bringing people on as employees for those who were effectively on fixed-term contracts? They were effectively full-time anyway but there were some issues there, were there not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Were there not some issues about people who were contracted but who essentially should have been employees?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: That will increase RTÉ's staff complement to some extent.

Environmental Impact of Quarries and Incinerators: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to address this important debate. I thank my colleague, Deputy O'Dea, for tabling this motion. He and I operate in side by side constituencies and we are equally disturbed by the proposals to put an incinerator in place that will impact negatively on the livelihoods of people in the region. We do not believe it is acceptable to our communities. Nor is it right...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (4 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: All of that sounds fantastic, but the reality is that it is not having an impact on the ground. Trolley numbers at University Hospital Limerick are still unacceptably high and are entirely out of sync with every other hospital in the country. The only solution is for the Minister to appoint a senior official within the HSE or the Department of Health, or an external independent consultant,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (4 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Good. I will call off the protest so.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (4 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to raise the important issue of overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick, UHL. I am disappointed that the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, has not got the time, inclination or interest to be here to discuss such an important issue. He has no problem, however, travelling to Limerick next week to participate in the opening of what is referred to as the health...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2019)

Timmy Dooley: People have every reason to be angry.