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:
RTÉ is a commercial semi-State company under the aegis of the Department. These are operational matters for RTÉ. Obviously, we are conscious of them. However, they are operational matters for RTÉ. RTÉ has appeared before the committee and has undertaken has appear again before the committee on the matter. The matter is apparently still under consideration by the Department of Social Protection. There is a process ongoing. Ms Murphy might like to comment further on that.