David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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Absolutely. When an Accounting Officer appears before the Committee of Public Accounts to account for gross expenditure, in the normal run of things, we would have a line-by-line breakdown of how that money is spent. There is a gap here where we do not have €179 million of the overall €439 million. Mr. Griffin cannot tell us whether a service level agreement is in place. In broad terms, he tells us that it is just spent on RTÉ and then goes on to tell us how RTÉ spends its money. That does not cut it. We need to come back to this issue. I would like RTÉ to appear before the Committee of Public Accounts if possible. Maybe we should discuss that and come back to it.