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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Timmy Dooley: This is where it will be very interesting-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Who signed the two payments that went to Mr. Kelly? Obviously a cheque was cut or a payment was made in some electronic format. Who signed that?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Timmy Dooley: It was approved by just one signature?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Timmy Dooley: That just required one signatory or one person to authorise. Is that correct?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the witnesses for coming before us today. What we have seen over the past week is the worst and best of RTÉ. We have seen the worst in terms of the revelations and, quite frankly, the way they have been handled. We have seen the best of RTÉ in the way in which its journalists have held it to account in the way they do us. That is an important point to get on the record....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I will go through my preamble and then I am happy to hear a response. That is pretty serious. If RTÉ on the one hand is trying to fight for survival, it needs the Government on board for that. It needs the public on board. It is hard to know what RTÉ's strategy is, but it seems to me to be to give as little as it can until it has to. That is not going to wash. It is not...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Timmy Dooley: If Mr. Lynch could just reflect on it now from this vantage point, why does he think the commercial arrangement had to be put in place? What did he think was going on at the time?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Did Mr. Lynch not think it was an effort to conceal? Did it not occur to anybody? Why would they be going down a particular pathway with one individual?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Timmy Dooley: But for what purpose? This was not Renault or somebody coming to say: "We would like to latch on to this star for our benefit and we will talk to you about it." This was RTÉ actively looking for something that it was going to pay for. Not alone was RTÉ paying the company the money to funnel it to Mr. Tubridy, but it was also funding the organisation of the event. Surely to God...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Timmy Dooley: But the first iteration of it activated a payment from RTÉ because, at least according to my reading of it, it was cost-neutral-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I will move on very quickly. Mr. Lynch said that the contract was concluded with Mr. Tubridy in May, and that he now has a new contract and it is suspended. Somebody said he was in contract or out of contract. Could Mr. Lynch just clarify - he is still being paid anyway – what the situation is vis-à-vishis contract?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Okay. I will put a question very briefly to Ms Ní Raghallaigh. She was with the Minister some day last week. Did she share with her at that stage that she had sought the resignation of the DG?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Okay.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Particularly if they are ambassadors. Generally, ambassadors are known to be ambassadors, so it would be important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I will be very brief. I want to understand what the marketplace might be for floating storage. We all have a concern about getting locked into an investment in embedded infrastructure and it becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy from a commercial perspective. I ask Mr. Molnár to talk a little about what the opportunities might be for the disposal of a floating storage asset when we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Towards the end of his presentation, Professor McMullin spoke about risk. He indicated that there was the risk of potential - I do not think he used the term "blackouts" - but the risk associated with the potential of having a scarcity versus the obvious risk to the climate if we embed this kind of infrastructure into our mix. Has Professor McMullin done any analysis on the potential impact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I have more comments than questions. To put my cards on the table, I fully support the approach being taken by the University of Limerick in its desire to have a veterinary school. I look at this in a number of ways. I will deal with the practical matters first. At a time when Dublin is under enormous pressure in terms of growth and the provision of accommodation for students, UCD might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the working group for their advocacy. They are all busy in their own practices. It is really good to see the efforts they are making.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Yes, I do. There are some wonderful people and we just have to work ahead with it.