Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

There are two issues I wish to raise. One of those issues is not directly for RTÉ, but rather for the Department of arts and media. While I know there has been engagement with the Comptroller and Auditor General, which we talked about last week, I wish to ask the Minister, Deputy Martin, what is practically happening with regard to the timeline the Department is working to in the context of the Comptroller and Auditor General auditing RTÉ. We should write a letter to the Minister for media in this regard.

I want to raise an issue relating to recommendation 15. Initially, the committee was told it would take 15 years to get through that scope inquiry with the number of people in question. We were then told it would be much quicker. We asked to be kept informed. The document states that, "RTÉ undertakes to keep the Committee informed of the ongoing Scope investigation and any settlements which may emerge". These are going to be incremental. I thought it would have already made progress if it is going to do it within a shorter timeframe. We should put that on the list for September to check back with RTÉ. We should be hearing something back at that stage about progress in this regard. We should keep after it because the amount of energy put into it on the RTÉ side will be important in terms of how quickly it gets resolved.

Are we dealing with the other-----