Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020

9:30 am

Ms Katherine Licken:

I will have to come back to the Deputy because, as I said, this predated my role as Accounting Officer in regard to RTÉ. This Department has only had responsibility for RTÉ in the past year or so. I will come back to the Deputy on when exactly it was identified. There are layers of governance structures which include annual report and account and audit. These are all really important layers. They are there to identify these issues. Whether they are identified by us, in the audit process or in the annual report and accounts, the whole point is that you have the systems there such that they are picked up some way. This issue has been picked up and it is being dealt with.