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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I want to go back to the issue of the invoice that was raised back on 24 July 2020. I mention the email that was sent from the legal department to Noel Kelly. Mr. Collins was copied in that email. Did it not raise a concern with Mr. Collins at that time that here was the legal department of RTÉ setting out the terms of an invoice to be raised by someone else and that Noel Kelly, Ryan...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I fully accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Did Mr. Collins not raise any questions as to how-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: -----his legal department was setting out the terms of how an invoice should be raised-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: -----for a third party?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I want to move on to the barter account. It was nothing to do with RTÉ but we had the national lottery before the committee in the last seven or eight months, which used moneys for prizes that were not collected and more than €120 million was used up in advertising. My understanding is that RTÉ benefited substantially from that funding. Did those people in the national...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Would Mr. Mullen accept that the national lottery increased its expenditure substantially with RTÉ as a result of moneys that were not collected by people who were entitled to collect it but did not do so for one reason or another? This amount was more than €120 million so RTÉ benefited quite substantially from that money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I am asking if major advertising groups benefited from that barter account, which was technically not going through the RTÉ system?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: It is now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: It was not going through in the sense that RTÉ's CFO was not aware of the barter account. The previous chair of the board was not aware of the existence of the barter account.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I know the way it works but I am raising a question about the decision-making in the use of that money. Were there people who benefited within their companies by putting major advertising in the way of RTÉ and then getting benefits from that barter account?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I am saying that in the use of the barter account, did people, say from the national lottery, benefit from that barter account in real terms, without it being fully accountable within finance in RTÉ?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Can I move on to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I want to move on to the issue of Breda O'Keeffe. Who made the final decision about the package she got? Who signed off on it? The cheque had to be paid out and someone had to sign the cheque so someone had to sign off on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Someone signed the cheque.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Someone gave the instruction.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: The then-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Was any other third party involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Would people involved in the processing not raise a question as regards what-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Were questions raised?