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)

Ms Anne O'Leary:

That I should take responsibility for the fiasco of Toy Show The Musicalis an interesting way of putting it. Unlike any of the projects that sought proper approval and that were brought through the rigorous process that was in place, it was not brought through that. When we went to look for the information, it was not given to us. The executives are full-time permanent employees. We are a part-time board that comes to examine something. We assume they are going to do their job like on the other 33 projects that had been brought in in the previous nine years, and that brought with them would be the full projects plans, project schedules, the risk analysis, the finance, etc., to have a robust discussion about approving the project, or not. They did not bring it to us. How can I take responsibility? If they had brought it, then we would have done exactly the same rigorous procedure as we had been doing for the previous nine and half years while I was there.

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