Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 September 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission

2:00 am

Mr. Donnacha McKeon:

Can I speak to that? I want to make clear that there are a lot of constrictions on what I can say for a lot of reasons. There is commercial information that is sensitive and that the service provider would consider sensitive, and there is the live RFT going on at the moment. I cannot really speak to their specific service model. What I can say is, if there was to be a Civil Service broadcast function, we would still need to get expertise from outside. There will always be a type of company, a type of service provider, in contract with us. The Civil Service is simply not living in that area and it is changing so much. There would always be a management, consultancy or expertise role that would be needed. I do not think there would be ever any situation where we would not be having an external contractor or some kind of broadcasting company.