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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: 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-----

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 fine. I have to leave. I am going to another meeting, so do not think I am walking out.

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

Michael Ring: I am sorry to have to go.

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.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Jackie Cahill: I met representatives of the retired employees of An Post last week. I want to bring to the attention of the House the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983, which wound up the old Department of Posts and Telegraphs. I will read from section 46 of that Act. Subsection (4) states: Every scheme under this section shall provide for not less favourable conditions in respect of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy. He makes a valid point. When you are getting your pension and the price of everything is going up but your pension is not, it is not nice. I agree with the Deputy. I will ask the relevant Minister to speak directly to the Deputy on that point. It is a matter for An Post, given the issue concerns its pension scheme. I will raise the issue with the Minister, Deputy Ryan.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I raise the issue of section 39 health and community workers. As the Minister knows, an agreement was reached in October last year between the Department of Health, the Department of children, and the INMO, SIPTU and Fórsa trade unions on behalf of these workers. The agreement included an 8% increase while negotiations were to continue regarding future pay movement. I understand that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The deal was most certainly done.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Where is it?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The KOSI process was put in place last year. Would you believe it, we are still working our way through the KOSI process. Only yesterday, I visited St. Christopher's Services in Longford. Its back payment of €1.2 million has been allocated and released by the HSE to the provider and will be passed on. A number of other section 39 organisations still need to complete the...