Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding

9:30 am

Ms Tr?ona Quill:

I thank the Deputy. The Department of Social Protection began its audit in September 2020 and it was, in fact, broader than the original Eversheds review. It has been reviewing RTÉ's engagement of 500 individuals. The Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection made some public statements on that confirming those numbers. That Department is undertaking a very detailed examination and it is progressing. It is not a quick review and it will take another considerable period before that review is concluded. That is where we are now. We get updates from time to time from RTÉ through the Government processes that are in place but it is really only when the entire review is complete that the full details will be in place.