Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 July 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay, I thank the Deputy. It is fair to say that given they have been meeting since 2018, the OPW is, from what we have seen so far, not in a very strong position legally. It is depending on the goodwill of the landlord here, and hopefully that will be forthcoming. I understand the landlord may have other properties rented out to the State.

No. 668 is correspondence from Ms Vivienne Flood, head of public affairs at RTÉ, dated 18 June. It provides information requested by the committee regarding the audit being conducted by Revenue, which relates to RTÉ’s engagement of contractors. At our meeting on 29 June we agreed to note and publish this item of correspondence, and to hold it over for consideration in public session today. We have an ongoing exchange of correspondence arising from our engagement with RTÉ, representatives of which were before us on 27 April. We requested further information arising from that meeting and have sought clarification and additional information on a number of areas. The correspondence before us today is a response to our letter of 8 June. Arising from our meetings on 15 and 22 June, we issued another letter to RTÉ on 28 June, to which we await a response. We also sent a letter to the Minister expressing the committee’s concerns about the lack of information RTÉ has provided to the committee. Deputies Catherine Murphy and Carthy have flagged this. Does Deputy Catherine Murphy want to come in on this?

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