David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would like the committee to consider it.

To return to an issue that arose at our last meeting, we had a situation with RTÉ and the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment whereby a big chunk of money was given over but there does not seem to be any way for us to examine how that money is spent. I acknowledge that the case of RTÉ is a bit more complicated because it is a public service organisation but it is still a significant amount of money and the Accounting Officer was only able to tell us that a cheque for €170 million is signed and that is about it. That is not appropriate. The same applies to the situation involving JobPath. This was a significant percentage of the budget of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. The money is given to those two organisations and we were unable to get any answers on how the fees are paid or how they work. That is unacceptable. We are not able to do our job.