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Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I understand that, in accordance with Standing Order 180, Deputy Shanahan intends to move the referral to committee of the Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023. I invite him to make a brief comment on the Bill.

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 178(1). Many people will be aware that I have spoken many times in this House on the need for transparency in Government spending and also the need to deliver fairness and equity in Government decision-making. My entry into politics...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Sale of Nitrous Oxide and Related Products Bill 2024: First Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Sale of Nitrous Oxide and Related Products Bill 2024: First Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to regulate and licence the sale of nitrous oxide to exempted purchasers, to prohibit the sale of nitrous oxide and nitrous oxide products to a person who has not attained the age of 18 years, and to provide for related matters. I thank the Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers for its assistance in preparing the Sale of...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: I have a few questions for information really, more than anything else. Who would these archives be available to and would they pay for these archives? What are the views of RTÉ on not letting the archives out? To be fair to RTÉ over the years, we have all those fantastic programmes like "Reeling in the Years" and the like. We forget what Ireland was like ten, 20, 30 years ago....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: To be fair to Deputy Costello, his heart is in the right place, but I am worried about what I see going on. If you put what he proposes into legislation, people would think they have rights and that RTÉ must jump based on them every time a request is made. It would be like the freedom of information arrangements. That power is totally abused. Recently, a guy contacted my office who...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: It does not stop RTÉ from replaying if it wants to do so.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: It cannot give it to anybody else. My other question is on staffing. How many staff are in place to produce material for and maintain and look after the archives? If the legislation comes in, will an increasing number of organisations be seeking access to the archives? Would RTÉ be able to cope?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: That is fair enough. The final question I was going to ask has been half answered. It relates to availability and what is available already. Somebody wrote to me recently saying there were no RTÉ archives but one of my girls in the office was able to reply that there were. Maybe RTÉ should be promoting the archives more, indicating how people can gain access to them. I...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: I will be very quick because I have to leave to chair another meeting at 3 p.m. The Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023 is concerned with the RTÉ archive. I have a simple question for our guests. Has RTÉ ever refused any of them when they have sought access to its archives? RTÉ has made the archives available to universities and colleges. Has it ever refused access?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: Does Dr. O'Dell not agree that RTÉ is the one with the copyright and that it needs some protection? It cannot just make this material freely available to everybody. There have to be some rules and regulations. Dr. O'Dell answered the question very honestly and I thank him for that but to be fair, RTÉ has made its archives available. Why is this Bill necessary? I am asking the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: Dr. O'Dell is a professor in a university. I am sure there is sensitive information that the university does not want made freely available and that it wants to have control over, and rightly so because it is the university's information. Does he not think that RTÉ is the same? To be fair to Dr. O'Dell he answered the question and said that RTÉ has never refused a request for any...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: I raised that earlier, if Dr. O'Dell was listening to the debate.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: I would say that the FOI legislation is the not the best that was ever introduced. I know Deputy Costello disagrees with me but-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: Of course Dr. O'Dell does. Why would he not? Freedom of information is necessary and essential but the kind of rubbish that is going on out there with it now is outrageous. No disrespect to Deputy Costello but if he was in a busy constituency office he would know all about freedom of information requests every single day. That is all I can say. In relation to this legislation, I am not...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: It is not about the abuse of freedom of information. This is about an entity that owns material and has copyright. Dr. O'Dell and everybody else want that to be freely available and yet their own organisations might not make the information in their own archives freely available to people who may want it. Maybe they should be opened up to everybody.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: That is what Dr. O'Dell says but it is not as simple as it seems. If we are going to open up archives under this legislation, then the contents of any and all archives should be made freely available to everybody.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: I do not disagree with that once it is not abused.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Michael Ring: That is the problem. Where does it start and where does it stop? The Freedom of Information Act is very good but the way-----