Ms Breda O'Keeffe:

If the Deputy does not mind, I will pull back a bit for a moment. I will answer the question about accounting oversight a bit more specifically. On the Department's accounting oversight with RTÉ, we submit monthly management accounts. They are very comprehensive with around 40 pages of information that goes to the Department every month. We meet the Department quarterly on governance and finance matters. Furthermore, when we develop annual budgets, we meet the Department and discuss the budgets and the challenges within them every year. At the end of every year, our annual accounts are audited extensively by external auditors.

Those accounts are approved by the board of RTÉ and then they are submitted to the Department by the end of April. We would have just, in the past few days-----