Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 October 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion

9:30 am

Ms Paula Mullooly:

I can help somewhat with that. At the last meeting, I gave a commitment to this committee that I would get the entire legal file reviewed by external lawyers in relation to what could and could not be shared. Following that review, a very significant amount of information was subsequently shared with this committee and the Deputy will have received it. We tried to put it in an order that would make sense to committee members. However, there is a small amount of documentation that has not been shared, which is either covered by legal advice privilege or by client confidentiality. For RTÉ as an organisation and for the functioning of the independent solicitor's office within RTÉ, it is important that those lines are maintained because it fundamentally affects how this solicitor's office and how RTÉ function.

In respect of the specific note, the committee has the two emails from Noel Kelly which set out what took place in that meeting and the Grant Thornton report which sets out the former director general's version of what took place in that meeting. We do not dispute either of those versions of events. The committee has all of the information. The only thing it does not have is the physical note.