Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Imelda MunsterImelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Nos. 841 and 845 raise more questions than answers. As we said, Revenue has said its audit is complete and RTÉ has said there is no report and it is unable to furnish the committee with a copy because of that, but as other speakers have said, there must be some paper trail there. It might be no harm to write to Revenue just to ask it about the paper trail, correspondence or whatever and whether, if RTÉ was to request same, it would be furnished with it. Then at least RTÉ would have the details and would have to, I imagine, furnish us with that.

The other point was the Department of Social Protection has said the amount was under €1 million and RTÉ has said it cannot provide a breakdown because of GDPR, but can we write to RTÉ asking it about the difference in figures between Revenue and the Department? I think it said the Department used a figure of €953,000 and Revenue had said over €1.2 million. Could we also ask it for a breakdown in relation to this? We are not asking for individuals to be identified but how many individuals were involved. We are talking about €1 million. How many were paid above brackets of, say, €20,000, €50,000 and €100,000?

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