Micheál Carrigy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have a straight question for Ms Ní Raghallaigh. Is she the right person to continue as chair? Earlier in the summer, we found out in this room that the Minister was not notified that Ms Ní Raghallaigh had asked Dee Forbes to resign. We found out in recent times that the Minister was not informed of those pay restorations either. The Minister, in her role, is the lead person on behalf of the taxpayer. To find out that this drip-feed of information is continuing and that the Minister is not being informed of all these changes is not acceptable. At Ms Ní Raghallaigh's first experience, when we discussed the Grant Thornton issue with regard to Ryan Tubridy's earnings from 2017 to 2019, she stated: "Why this figure was understated, and by whom, is a question we as a board are also very anxious to know the answer to."

The Grant Thornton report is complete. I would like to answers to those questions: why and by whom?

The same report stated that the auditor's reports were not passed to the audit and risk committee. Why was that? Before that report, there was an internal review, pre-2020 to 2022, regarding the payments to Ryan Tubridy. The 2017 to 2019 correction arose from that and resulted in the Grant Thornton report. Why has that internal review never been provided to the committee? The committee was previously told that the understatement was "a mistake and an error". That is on the record. However, the report suggests there was no error or mistake but a deliberate attempt to mislead the Government, the Oireachtas and, ultimately, the people we represent. What is Ms Ní Raghallaigh's position now on this mistake or error?