Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay. I thank Mr. Bakhurst. With regard to being a law unto themselves, I wish to bring up the Soho House club.

We were blatantly misled by an executive board member who sat here at several committee hearings and distinctly told us that the rental of the Soho club was used for business meetings. RTÉ told us it was used for business meetings with clients because RTÉ no longer had offices in London. That was the very reason for which it was being used. RTÉ's documents show us, however, that in December 2022 and April 2023 no meetings had taken place, so we can assume that the former commercial director and a colleague had used it for accommodation purposes and not for the purpose given when they blatantly misled Oireachtas Members and the public. It in itself is quite shocking that a person would blatantly deceive Oireachtas Members and would find themselves on the executive board of an organisation that is in receipt of public funding and that is a public broadcasting organisation. It in itself is quite shocking that it was allowed get away with that. The other issue, however, is that there were also members of the executive board here when that was said, and no one contradicted it. What does that say about corporate governance and transparency?