Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is important that we would have that. Writing in the Sunday Independent last week, the journalist Shane Ross raised a number of issues regarding the importance of that committee and why it was not meeting at that crucial time and those questions need to be answered.

In regard to Toy Show The Musical, €2.2 million was lost. By my rough calculations that equals the television licence fee from every household in the town of Tralee and every household in the town of Killarney. Then RTÉ still goes on to say it is proud of the achievement. If that is what RTÉ is proud of, we might as well all pack up and go home. How can a loss of €2.2 million be justified and then stood over as something to be proud of? That is an enormous loss. It is a disgrace; it is a scandal.