Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

RTÉ gets substantial State funding. It also collects funding under the licence fee process. It is important that there is full accountability and the decision we have made here today is the correct decision. We want the note to be available to be made public. I refer to the summary but also to our entitlement to see the actual original note as well. While people can say there are particular reasons RTÉ does not want to disclose this information on the basis that it might be doing an investigation on another issue for "Prime Time" or whatever, this is a different issue. This is about the accountability of the organisation. It is not about the accountability of any third party, but about that of the organisation. What we were trying to do as a committee is to try to restore the credibility of RTÉ and the one way we can do that is by making sure there is full disclosure, insofar as possible, of the issues here in order that the public can come back and have trust in the organisation. Not providing the information is not going to create credibility. This is the way to do it and RTÉ should co-operate with us in that respect.