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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Imelda Munster: Not at all. We know what the Eversheds report is about. We know that hundreds upon hundreds of workers still have not got their rightful entitlements. We know that the director general has said in front of either our committee or the public accounts committee that RTÉ had set aside €20 million to cover some of the expenses of the misclassification of workers and the denial of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Imelda Munster: Surely Mr. McCarthy would know whether or not private accommodation is more expensive than State-run at this stage, two years on.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Imelda Munster: I have the figure of 30 inspections. I will double check Mr. McCarthy's figure, but even at that-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Imelda Munster: Even at that, 105 is less than 50%, despite the fact that more than 4,500 children are being accommodated.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Imelda Munster: If we were to look at community policing funding on the spreadsheet, the figure would not have altered that much.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Imelda Munster: I thank the Commissioner. I refer to the PULSE system and the 2,000 emergency calls that were cancelled or deleted at the time. The review carried out in 2021 stated that gardaí behaviour was a major factor in that. The Garda got funding, I think in 2021, of €15 million for a new IT system. Is that IT system up and running?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (21 Mar 2024)

Imelda Munster: 299. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people that were on the waiting list for homecare packages in counties Louth and Meath, at the end of each year from 2018 to 2023, in tabular form. [13406/24]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Imelda Munster: I will start with questions for TG4. Can Mr. Esslemont talk us through the budget issue he raised regarding the fact that TG4 received €6 million less in budget 2024 than it had anticipated and how that has affected television production companies and the station? He also mentioned specific incentives relating to Gaeltacht areas. Can he outline what is available at the moment and...

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Since the Minister's bizarre decision on Thursday to appear on "Prime Time", her actions and the resignation of Siún Ní Raghallaigh have dominated the news cycle. It is clear the Minister should not have done that interview. Yesterday, at the media committee, she admitted she had been aware the then chair was threatening to resign, yet she went ahead with that interview. In fact,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Semi-State Bodies (15 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: 1. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the two reports recently commissioned and published at RTÉ on Toy Show The Musical and the voluntary exit programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7245/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Semi-State Bodies (15 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: First, I have to say that again I submitted a question to the Minister around bogus self-employment at RTÉ and once again, it was rejected. I am running out of ways to word the question in the hope that the Minister will actually answer it. I see that she met Mr. Bakhurst in the last couple of weeks and she also met the unions, which would suggest that it is something that comes under...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Semi-State Bodies (15 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Yesterday, the director of HR who was responsible for putting through that exit package, which came in at a cost of just under €500,000 to the taxpayers, appeared at the committee. The director of HR put through the procedure with that exit package, knowing that it did not meet the criteria and knowing full well it broke the rules and was not compliant with the scheme. That person...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: So you knew something was not right with that and you said, more or less, you took Dee Forbes at her word and were happy enough to-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: You took her at her word that the 80% would be made up, so you let it go and did not flag it with management.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Yes, but further on, when you were given the instruction, as you said in your opening statement, to go ahead with the scheme, you knew at that stage there was no possible chance of the 80% savings being made because the new CFO was being instated and the role had not been suppressed. You knew all that.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Do not play with words. You knew at that stage what you were being asked to sign off on was not correct but you did it.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Of course you were involved in it. Your statement says: The exit of the former CFO was processed in the same way as all others. She received the standard letter, which included the wording “as approved by the Executive Board”. You said this was an administrative oversight and one you take full responsibility for. Deputy Griffin referred to that paragraph too. I have...