Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Originally the expectation, or certainly my understanding, was that we would have both reports by the end of November. We did not have them. Meanwhile we had to proceed with the draft document and work is at an advanced stage on it. We have this report out today and it has significant findings. Nobody has read it in full at this point. For anyone who has seen it, or seen some of the issues that have been leaked out of it already, it points to where to go on it. It shows there are significant issues to be addressed.

When we looked for authorisation from the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight in the Oireachtas to extend our powers and our remit to bring in RTÉ to dig into its accounts and examine the matters we examined throughout last year, we did not have "Toy Show The Musical". At that stage it was before July and all of this had not even unfolded. It was subsequent. If we are going to do it, and if we intend to bring RTÉ before the committee again, we need to seek an extension. I suggest to Deputies Murphy and Burke and other members that it might be wise to include the Grant Thornton-----