Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Ms Licken and her team. It is good to see many of them at the Committee of Public Accounts.

At the outset, I want to refer to the breadth of her organisation. Ms Licken referred to it in her own opening remarks. I note some members have focused in on RTÉ and others on the European Capital of Culture 2020. I will touch on a number of other elements within both the accounts and other areas.

The first I wanted to touch on was something I raised on the previous occasion we engaged, and that was around the television licence. Obviously, things have changed in terms of the pandemic and the need for inspectors to do other work. For how long were the television inspectors suspended from their ordinary work during the course of the pandemic? What impact did that suspension of television licence inspections have on the collection rate of 2020 and 2021? That will be my first question.