Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Usually with a feasibility study, people are asked to change this, that and the other rather than totally scrap it and say one is going to have the power in the future. Go raibh maith agat as sin.

On Comptroller and Auditor General oversight, the Minister, Deputy O’Donovan, has told the Dáil he could not accept my Bill on the Comptroller and Auditor General coming under the PAC because RTÉ needed the power to commission audits privately on top of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s. Did RTÉ seek the additional power whose effect would be to delay Comptroller and Auditor General oversight, or did the Minister seek it? If my Bill, which was very simple, had been passed, RTÉ would have been under the Comptroller and Auditor General before the end of the year. I cannot understand the logic – maybe there is some logic that I am missing – behind RTÉ needing to commission additional private audits if the Comptroller and Auditor General is in charge.