Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to touch back on some of those jollies, if you like, when it comes down to costs, etc. Would it be standard practice in any company - I was listening to Ms O’Leary last week - for family members and friends to attend functions? I have been given information here that in Ms O’Leary’s case, as the commercial director, her husband would have attended many of these events, and many more than I had mentioned last week.

In general, if one is at work, one is at work. I do not bring my husband to the restaurant here or to the canteen and I do not have him tagging along because I am at work. He does not bring me to his workplace. It is Ms O’Leary’s job to entertain these clients so in the corporate governance sense why would Ms O’Leary’s husband come along with her to every single event, whether it is accessing matches, Fleetwood Mac concerts, and I could go on and on, with tickets purchased by RTÉ, when another potential commercial interest or advertiser could use that ticket?