Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Rory Coveney came in here and we tried to interrogate a little with him around Toy Show: The Musical. Minister, you and I both know, as other colleagues do, coming from an arts background, that €2 million is a staggering figure to be spent on a musical. When we tried to probe that first, Mr. Coveney said to me that it was commercially sensitive and that he could not answer the question. He was told that was not going to wash any more. When we drilled down a little more into the detail and got figures, which we should have had the first day, his answer to me was that it made no material difference to the finances within RTÉ. How would you reflect on such a comment? I know it is all over and done with, but I am just curious because you are the Minister and you were listening in to all that. I was astonished and shocked. A sum of €2 million is huge money to anybody in any organisation. Anybody from the arts world listening in, I am sure, felt extremely upset to hear that because we know, and I am sure you do too, the impact that had on the arts and the creative industries all across Dublin at the time.