Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011

11:50 am

Ms Margaret Tumelty:

I can give details of that. In 2011 there was work to support the annual review of the public service broadcaster, the annual review of public funding. There was financial advice for the investment of the moneys relating to the broadcasting funding scheme. There was significant investment in IT in that year. There was work to support the development of the children's code. That consultancy heading also includes research. Those are some of the top-line projects: the treasury management, children's code, RTE and IT. Much of the research is focused on economics, for example, the public service broadcasting work involves quite significant economic analysis of a market place, building to a review of public funding on which significant decisions are being made. We do not have that focused economic skill-set internally and if one outsources it one is able to bring concerted economic expertise to it over a short period.

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