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

Shane Cassells: In terms of setting out to Ms Forbes why she was being suspended, can Ms Ní Raghallaigh tell me what she said to her in that respect?

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

Shane Cassells: Indeed. Ms Ní Raghallaigh can appreciate that the suspension of that person has removed the one witness effectively from this process of trying to find out what has happened. The RTÉ statement yesterday squarely put the blame on one person.

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

Shane Cassells: Mr. Lynch, this morning we heard that Ryan Tubridy is out of contract, something he has since rejected, and that new contract negotiations have now been paused. I ask Mr. Lynch if Ryan Tubridy will be back on the air at RTÉ?

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

Shane Cassells: Does Mr. Lynch envisage him coming back on air in the long term?

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

Shane Cassells: Okay.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: I agree with the Order of Business as outlined by the Leader. I join the Cathaoirleach in welcoming the ambassador to the Seanad. The Cathaoirleach, the Leader and I had the pleasure of a very good engagement a while ago with the OSCE in Luxembourg. We met the Prime Minister, Mr. Bettel. We worked collaboratively with the Parliament there. The ambassador is very welcome and I thank her...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Cathaoirleach very much and I thank him also for his welcome to Ms Mia Galligan and Ms Mya Doocey who are witnesses today, as the Cathaoirleach has said, at the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media. These are two transition year students and it is highly commendable that they are here today as witnesses for a full Oireachtas committee. The received a...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: Thank you. I extend a very warm welcome to Mya Doocey and Mia Galligan from the Mercy Secondary School in Navan. It was my honour to have met both of the students when they presented their project at the BT Young Scientist and Technology awards, where they received a commendation for their work and research. It is research that is hugely important on the very theme we are opening on here...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: That is fantastic. I have a question for Ms Galligan. Ms Doocey touched on the fact that a number of the PE teachers are male. Has there been a greater understanding and are the witnesses trying to ensure the male teachers within the school have a greater understanding as well?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: Both Ms Doocey and Ms Galligan are people who participate very fully in sport. I want to ask about students in their peer group and students of their age. Both from their research and anecdotally, have they noticed some girls, such as friends and classmates, pulling away from sport because of this?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: That is from one end of the spectrum and from having talked to their fellow students on the need to address that. The witnesses spoke to our elite Olympians as part of their research. I would be interested to know what they said about the measures they were talking. Mya talked about them taking paracetamol. What discussions were had with them?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: That is a hugely important message from two young students. I will raise this when we have the pillar sports organisations in next week so they and all sports organisations in Ireland hear that and it is discussed and taken on board. I thank the witnesses for their presentation, for the work they are doing and for being inspirational, as I said to both girls, to people like my daughter, and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: I welcome all the witnesses and thank them for their engagement today. I will ask a question of each group. I will start with Sport Against Racism. This comes in the week that an Irish under-21 team walked off the field on Monday night when playing against Kuwait because one of our substitutes was subjected to racist remarks by a Kuwaiti player. This follows the racist abuse in March of...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: Absolutely. I am going to jump to Mr. Maguire and Dr. Conama. Dr. Conama was talking about attitudes and the requirement for a change of attitude. In their submission, which got down to practicalities, Dr. Conama and Mr. Maguire said that it is crucial to emphasise the need for accessible sporting facilities that cater to the specific needs of deaf athletes. We are going to be launching...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: As part of our report, when we finish it, we should articulate what has been set out in part of the submission to the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media on that link between sports funding and the clear need for facilities to be accessible for the needs of the deaf community.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: Yes. I will go to Mr. Walsh, who spoke about the Lets Get Visible campaign. I will be parochial and I want to commend David Gough, who is a friend a mine and who is extremely visible in that respect. I mention the work the GPA is doing this week with SuperValu in the Rainbow Laces campaign as well. Does Mr. Walsh have his rainbow laces with him?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: Fantastic. I want to commend SuperValu and the GPA on the work they are doing in making sure there is a circulation of the Rainbow Laces campaign. I commend David and Hannah Looney, the Cork footballer, as well. We touched on some of the examples in visibility. It took until 2009 for Dónal Óg Cusack to be the first openly gay GAA player and it took until 2009 for the first...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: I will move to TRUST Ireland and Ms Carney, and the submission she put forward. In particular I mention the topic of sports and women that she touched on, and the participation of women and girls in sport and physical activity being at significantly lower rates than men and boys. It was done at the outset but I also welcome our witnesses who were at the previous session, Ms Mia Galligan and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: Ms Carney touched on the Irish women's soccer team, which we are looking forward to kicking off next month. There will be a lot of hoopla around that, with politicians wanting to get their pictures taken and all of that. The Minister of State responsible for sport was in my home town of Navan last week. We visited a number of soccer clubs which are looking for money for development. He...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: That was touched on too. There is a governance issue in the country that needs to change. Unfortunately, frustratingly, speaking to some of the few high-level women administrators in the country, there are not enough and, second, it comes back to making sure there is a pathway for that change to happen. It is painstakingly slow at the moment.