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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)

Brendan Griffin: Did the Minister ever express concerns about salaries in RTÉ at the stage?

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)

Brendan Griffin: When RTÉ came looking for money and it pays these astronomical wages to "top talent" - it is a terrible term - would Deputy Martin, as the representative of the people and as the Minister, not have questioned RTÉ about that?

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)

Brendan Griffin: Did the Minister discuss with the chair the importance of the Oireachtas being able to question key people in the organisation and the need to avoid dismissal prior to the Oireachtas being able to establish the full facts?

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)

Brendan Griffin: Does the Minister believe that the board was wrong to dismiss the former director general before the Oireachtas had an opportunity to ask her questions? This dismissal occurred after we publicly expressed our interest in asking the same person questions.

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)

Brendan Griffin: The board sought her resignation, as was established in this committee.

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)

Brendan Griffin: I wish her a speedy recovery. Not being in situin the post which she previously held makes it difficult for this committee to ever establish those facts. That is a result of the board's actions.

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)

Brendan Griffin: Regarding bogus self-employment, how much has been set aside by RTÉ to settle that issue?

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)

Brendan Griffin: Will the Minister furnish the details to the committee? We understand it will run to multiples of millions at this stage. This leads me on to my next question. Has the Minister referred matters pertaining to RTÉ to the Revenue Commissioners arising from this most recent scandal?

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)

Brendan Griffin: Is the Minister aware of any inquiries being made by the Revenue Commissioners into RTÉ outside of the bogus self-employment matter?

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)

Brendan Griffin: It has not communicated whether or not that is happening. Has the Minister asked if that is happening?

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)

Brendan Griffin: It is important.

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)

Brendan Griffin: With all due respect, I am not the Minister. I do not have those direct lines.

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)

Brendan Griffin: No, I am asking if Revenue is looking into matters in RTÉ other than bogus self-employment, arising from this. Has the Minister discussed it with the chair or has it come to the Minister's attention?

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)

Brendan Griffin: Has the Minister asked the chair that question?

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)

Brendan Griffin: Will the Minister establish that for the committee? It would be interesting for us to know if that is the case. It is in the public interest.

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)

Brendan Griffin: The Minister said she was not happy about the reinstatement of the executives’ pay previously and that it was done without her knowledge. Would she look to have that decision reversed by the board? Maybe this is something she has already asked for this?

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)

Brendan Griffin: On the Department itself, I asked earlier about interactions with the chair and so on. Was anyone in the Department scrutinising RTÉ annual reports? I presume there is a wing of the Department that has special responsibility for RTÉ under an assistant secretary or a principal officer? I would imagine there is. What is the set up there?

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)

Brendan Griffin: And they have been doing that over the past number of years, obviously.

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)

Brendan Griffin: Did anyone see anything wrong with governance or lack thereof in relation to, for example, the audit and risk committee or the remuneration committee not meeting?

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)

Brendan Griffin: Would anyone in the Department have flagged concerns the Minister should raise with the chair when she was meeting her prior to March 2023? In the meetings they would have been having in the two years and nine months prior to that, would anyone have flagged concerns the Minster should have flagged with the chair?