Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed)
Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I do not expect the firm to be given a bonus for that. Deloitte gave RTÉ a clean bill of health when it should not have, full stop. I am a small businessman, like I am sure are some people around here, and if we operated in this way we would not last weeks, never mind years. Our witnesses have mentioned €15 million of a kind of contingency fund to deal with the multiple tax issues. Nobody in Ireland today could do that with Revenue. Revenue deal with things swiftly and immediately and there is not a whole debate for a firm to say that it has put a fund away and that it will pay Revenue if it has to. That is so shoddy and shabby and is so hard to believe.
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