Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It is to do with the scope. The other issue in this is that the Eversheds Sutherland’s contractor review process in RTÉ reviewed all active contractors at the time. There may well have been former contractors and a scope investigation will not exclude former contractors and it is, therefore, important that we ask RTÉ about the number of former contractors and if they are part of the work that the scope department is doing.

No. 1285B is from Mr. John Hogan, Secretary General of the Department of Finance dated 2 June 2022 and providing information requested by the committee arising from our meeting with the Department of Finance on 5 May 2022. The correspondence draws attention to the transcript of our meeting with the Department. Page 6 of the transcript refers to the Apple escrow fund. The Secretary General states “The financial statements for 2020, published on 22 June, set out that the net assets at the end of 2020 totalled €13. 98 million”. In order to correct the record, the Secretary General clarifies that the correct figure is €13.98 billion.