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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: It is fair enough that the Minister is awaiting the recommendations but she would, I am sure, agree that any recommendations would have to be absolutely watertight, with a huge degree of oversight at every level? As she knows, all of this went on under the watch of the entire executive board, and indeed the board. Nobody, it appears, was aware of anything that was going on. That is why I...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: I wanted to touch on something else. The Minister is aware that licence fee receipts will be down by €21 million by the end of the year, and possibly even more. She is aware of the recent survey regarding public confidence in RTÉ, not just regarding what happened and all that we went through but also regarding the maintenance of RTÉ Player, the constant repeats and all of...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: We expect to see RTÉ's new strategic plan and I think the director general is supposed to be publicising it this month. If we get the new strategic plan and if RTÉ is saying what is going to be different at a top level in the broadcaster, how will the Minister measure that against the investigations that will not be completed until year end, in the context of decisions made on...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: The technical working group has submitted its recommendations to the Minister in advance of her long-awaited decision. I know this has yet to be discussed by Cabinet and so on, but at this stage can the Minister even give us a clue as to what options are on the table regarding the licence fee?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (4 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: 164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown of spending, in tabular form, of the two allocations made to the Drogheda implementation board of €167,884 from the dormant accounts fund in 2022 and €268,407 from the dormant accounts fund in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42932/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: I will start with the McCann Fitzgerald report and the correspondence the committee was furnished with. The severance package schemes date from 2017 to 2021. What amounts are we talking about and what sort of positions, primarily, were the focus?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: How many, sorry?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: That would cover not just voluntary packages but also exit packages-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: In relation to the former chief financial officer, Breda O'Keeffe, and her exit package, this committee was told that it was not approved by the board or even seen by the board. That package would contravene existing RTÉ rules. I am right in saying that?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: If an exit package was issued but the position was not redundant, that would contradict RTÉ's existing rules.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: Let us just focus on this one particular case so we can get clarity. The former chief financial officer got an exit package. Her position was not made redundant. The norm is that exit packages are not given unless the position is made redundant. The chief financial officer who resigned yesterday had replaced Ms O'Keeffe, so the position was still there. In that context, did that break...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: Should she or should she not have gotten an exit package, given that the position was still there and someone else was going to be appointed to it?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: That is fair enough and I understand that. The report will go into these issues in detail but if it is a fact that an exit package was given to somebody who did not qualify for it, Mr. Bakhurst does not need a review to tell him that. I am talking about a very recent case involving the former chief financial officer. In order to regain public confidence, when people constantly see that...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: Would the former CEO have been on 80% more than the CFO who resigned yesterday?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: In terms of what you said earlier, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: It is with regard to the 80% cost saving.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: My question is specifically on this.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: I want to touch on another issue that has to be resolved if there is ever to be public trust or confidence, not only among the general public and TV licence payers but in particular the workers at RTÉ. I am speaking about those who were misclassified in bogus self-employment. We have been told that money had been set aside. We know that €1.2 million was paid to Revenue for PRSI...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: Will Mr. Fives give us a rough amount? Is it €10 million, €20 million or €30 million?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)

Imelda Munster: Has money been set aside for workers as compensation for the entitlements they lost, including PRSI, pensions, holiday pay and sick leave? Has money been set aside for this?