Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 22 January 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
1:00 pm
Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I want to ask about the delay in releasing reports, particularly for RTÉ. Until a few days ago, we had not received the 2019 and 2020 annual reports, let alone the list of salaries for top earners for 2017 to 2019, inclusive. Recently, the director general of RTÉ stated in an interview that in 2008, RTÉ had given a public commitment to publish the details of its ten highest earners and has done so since then. Given the substantial annual investment the State makes in RTÉ, can the Secretary General advise when the 2020 annual report will be published? Is he in a position to give an undertaking that RTÉ will start to publish its list of top salaries on an annual basis and the annual report within a timeframe that most people would consider reasonable?
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