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- 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 (22 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: The Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media issued a report on working conditions and skills in the hospitality sector, and the committee has had unions and workers in on the shocking pay and conditions. Eleven recommendations were made. Can the Department outline how many of those recommendations it has implemented?
- 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 (22 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: I know that.
- 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 (22 Jun 2023) Imelda Munster: You have to think of long-term reputational damage also.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: I thank the representatives for attending. We all agree, and the public are of the opinion, that there has been a complete breakdown in corporate governance within RTÉ. Public confidence in how things are dealt with has gone down the chute and credibility has gone by the wayside. The public are of the opinion that it is all down to a select few of the top brass at RTÉ. We are...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: No. Time is of the essence here. Why was-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: At that stage, was it you who agreed that the invoices would be paid through the barter account?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: You did not.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: We are talking years two and three with the payments of-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: No.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: I am talking about the payments - the €150,000 payments. Did you agree with Ryan Tubridy's agent that they would be paid through the barter account?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: To the barter account. You were asked by Dee Forbes.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: You did not raise concerns about that as the director.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: Was it you who advocated that those payments be listed as "consultancy fees"?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: You would have notes, surely, would you not?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: You remember the urgency. To have those payments come under "consultancy fees" is not a small matter. Many would say it is misleading and it is inaccurate, even fraudulent, accountancy. Many would be of an opinion with regard to putting it under "consultancy fees". How could you forget something like that?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: You cannot remember. How could you not remember something like that?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: However, whoever processed those invoices and put them through the barter account as consultancy fees would have been you.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: That is right. Okay. On the €80,000 paid in fees to the facilitator, who was that paid to? Was it the talent agent?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
Imelda Munster: The €80,000 in fees paid to the facilitator of the deal.