Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion
Ms Si?n N? Raghallaigh:
As I said in the opening statement, in the process where we were validating that all the figures were correct, after discovering this after the Grant Thornton report was issued to us, I requested that we look further back to make sure this had not happened before. It was in that process that we discovered, in validating, that the figures that were paid compared with what was published to the Oireachtas in terms of the top ten earners did not agree in the case of Mr. Tubridy's salary. That happened only a week ago and as a result of that, the audit and risk committee has now engaged again with Grant Thornton. The terms of reference were agreed by the board. Representatives of Grant Thornton are in the building today and are conducting the work. They are confident they will have that completed within the four weeks.
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