Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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I would write a letter to say that I was disappointed. I indicated that a letter was coming. The chair said that she regretted the error. She then stated that she believed she phoned the former Secretary General last October to say that the independent process had concluded and that he would be leaving the organisation. In that phone call she said - this is the language she used - that she “imagined” she would have also referred to the role of the board in approving this.