Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chairman. On Nos. 663 and 668, I suggest we forward the response from Revenue to RTÉ and invite a response. At the last meeting I said I thought RTÉ was talking down the clock, if you like. I would also invite RTÉ management informally to take it upon themselves to write to the committee and disclose what we have asked. Revenue has made it as clear as black and white that there is nothing whatsoever precluding RTÉ from doing that. It is vital it does that in the interests of transparency. Let us just wait and see if RTÉ comes clean and furnishes us with that information. No. 668 was the comparative review of the remuneration of Irish-speaking workers I raised with RTÉ when they were in. I asked a review of the time. As to the response we have got, I did not request that RTÉ commission some consultancy to carry out a €100,000 report. Ms Forbes was asked at that time to given an undertaking to review the remuneration and the disparity between the Irish-speaking workers and the English-speaking ones. That is what she was asked to do.

Will the secretariat write to RTÉ on this once again and include a copy of the section of the Official Report that relates to the meeting? Ms Forbes she was happy to do that at that time. Again, it comes down to transparency. We do not want the message to go out that RTÉ is stonewalling the Committee of Public Accounts on several issues we have flagged up with it and sought information on. I refer to both issues, Nos. 663 and 668.