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:
Yes. On behalf of the board, I can say that we are committed to building up the trust again. This has caused untold damage to the organisation. There is a new director general starting on 10 July, Mr. Kevin Bakhurst, and we have obviously had discussions about this. We have identified a lot of the weaknesses in relation to how this could have happened and the weaknesses in governance. We are setting out addressing those, some of which we have already addressed, and we have implemented changes in relation to it. We are communicating that as well. The Government is also doing its own review and obviously we will be co-operating with that. We have started that process already.
With regard to the payments around barter and all of that sort of thing, all of that process is now tightened up and is completely under the control of the finance unit.
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