Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The business before us this afternoon is as follows: minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. Before we before deal with minutes and any other business, there is the matter of the correspondence that arrived late yesterday from Radio Teilifís Éireann, RTÉ. We had some prior discussion on this and the committee finds that the offer from RTÉ to provide a note on the note of the meeting of 7 May 2020 is not acceptable. The committee has discussed its response. We will issue a response to RTÉ and we hope it will revert to us by close of business on Monday. If we do not receive a response by that time, we will consider that we are not getting a response to it and we will deal with it in a different way when we meet on Tuesday. However, we are not willing to accept the conditions set out in the letter from RTÉ. The committee wants to see the original note. We want it without redactions. We will accept a summary that can be used for publication. We have to reserve the right to uphold the constitutional position of the committee. We have to reserve the right to use evidence gathered from this exercise and from any notes that we receive in our reporting. It is our constitutional duty to do that. This will be the full and final offer to RTÉ. Committee members might want to come in to elaborate on any of that. I will bring in members in the order that they indicate. I call Deputies Devlin and Murphy.