Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 December 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund
9:00 am
Mr. Mark Griffin:
Since we spoke last, we have an oversight agreement in place. An oversight agreement, under the code of practice for the governance of State bodies, is effectively what they recommend where you have an agency that is either independent - so we have them in place for our three regulators, the Commission for Energy Regulation, Commission for Communications Regulation, ComReg, and Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BAI - or where there are very clear performance requirements set out in legislation. That is why we have an oversight agreement in place for RTÉ rather than an SLA. As we mentioned last year, they are also subject to regulatory review by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. That oversight agreement, after the committee helpfully brought it to my attention last year, has been in place with RTÉ since the end of 2017.
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