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)

Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

On the €15 million, that is the amount we put aside on the scope process, on which we are dealing with the Department of Social Protection. I have been in a number of meetings at a senior level with the Department myself and we are trying to resolve it. It is very complicated and these are legacy issues, some of which go back to the 1980s, I believe, or even further. It is not straightforward. Nobody in this room more than me would like to get this resolved rapidly but these are individuals and out of the 695 people, about 200 of them are people such as musicians from “The Late Late Show” who did a couple of days, or a few weeks. It ranges from such people to other people who have worked in the organisation for a long period. We are dealing with a significant range of people and the scope section has and continues to engage with us. Ms Cusack has spent all day with that unit just recently trying to work through this to see how we can get this resolved as quickly as possible. The €15 million relates to the scope provision and not to Revenue.

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