Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
12:30 pm
Ms Dee Forbes:
Again, I will have to check the details, but the land has been in RTÉ's ownership for an awfully long time. I do not know if the Deputy is aware, but it was a piece of unused land. There was nothing on it apart from a sports and social club. When we were looking at the sale of this land, it was examined mainly through the lens of where the money would go if the asset was sold. Due to the years of underinvestment, particularly in capital, we really felt the need to release some money for capital. We had to go through the various checks and balances. We had to get approval and then-----
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