Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 September 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed)
Ms Si?n N? Raghallaigh:
There are several questions. I will try to answer as many as possible. Whether I am the right person for the chair or not is a decision for the Minister. I can only speak for when I when I have been there, which is since late November. The board and I have made a lot of changes. What we brought forward was because what was discovered in the audit and from the action we took immediately on that, we discovered some of the information we have been trawling over. That is a matter for the Minister.
On what the Senator said about the 2017 to 2019 correction, I want to be clear. That statement stated that these numbers were reported incorrectly, publicly and to the Oireachtas, and we corrected them. We knew they were incorrect; we did not know why. That is why the Grant Thornton report, which is a factual report, was commissioned. As with any gathering of facts, there is a dependency on the co-operation of key people. If all of those people are not taking part, there is a chance there will be an inconclusive answer.
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