Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media

Photo of Niamh SmythNiamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Senator. I know that it has been a long evening for the Minister and her officials, which I very much appreciate. We are at the three-hour mark and it comes to me with my final few questions. I will not rehash what has been discussed earlier because everybody has done a stellar job in interrogating those points.

I will make a few small points. We are at this point because of the deep concern around exit packages within RTÉ. As the Minister said, this arose over the exit package for Mr. Collins. The Minister did not believe or understand it to be the case that the board had approved this package but we now know that the board had approved it. We do not know the figure for that yet.

We now know that Mr. Coveney, who we understood had resigned, also received a package. Has the Minister asked the question whether Dee Forbes, who also resigned, received a package at any point?

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