Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I wrote to the committee regarding RTÉ on 9 December 2022. The Chair might remember I looked for the business case at that stage. That was in real time. Many of the things we had concerns about at that stage are contained in the report.

The lack of somebody with overall financial responsibility is quite incredible. I will go through it in some detail. Certainly we can see there are corporate failings here. We had hoped we would have this report on the redundancies and the Grant Thornton report prior to December so they could be included in our report. There is a real possibility that we will need to speak to one or more people in the organisation. This would require a meeting. We do not want this to go on forever. It would be prudent for us to go back and look for an extension for these two reports. Ideally we would have covered them, had we had them in advance of the December deadline.