Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011

12:00 pm

Mr. Michael O'Keeffe:

I apologise. The original IRTC was the predecessor of the BCI and had a staff of about ten people. Marine House was simply not large enough to accommodate the full complement of staff who arrived between 2002 and 2003. We had to move to a larger premises and that is why we moved to Warrington Place. Again, that would have been the practice in that rentals were taken for a certain period of time. The current premises are very satisfactory for our needs. Obviously it would have been ideal to have been able to dispose completely of the original Marine House premises. That has not been possible but we have been successful in subletting it.