Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed)
Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I do and I think Ms O'Keeffe has taken that opportunity to clear her name. As I said, the way it was presented, and the way I interpreted it, it was very much laying the blame on the former director general and the former chief financial officer, which is Ms O'Keeffe.
I will move on to Ms O'Leary. On accountability, and this is something Deputy Munster tried to get to the bottom of. Ms O'Leary acknowledged she knew the invoices that were raised, those two €75,000 invoices, were for Mr. Tubridy. She said last week that she could not recollect whether she saw the term "consultancy fees" on those invoices. She also said in a response to me that it was probably someone within her office who would have seen that. Even if it was someone within her office, at the end of the day, she is head of the commercial side. Does she not feel she should now be accountable and take responsibility for what transpired, and the fact that a red flag was not raised?
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