Results 181-200 of 21,040 for speaker:Alan Kelly
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: You are not answering my question. Was there an awareness of this impairment? I will ask you again and if you do not answer the question, I will just say you are not going to answer the question and leave it at that. Was there an awareness within the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: I respect Mr. Ó Coigligh was not the Secretary General. That is why his colleagues are here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: You did not know it was an IT project.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: So the Department did know it was the ERP project. We are getting places.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: The Department was aware, two years ago, that there was an impairment relating to the ERP project that was larger than the total sums we were discussing at these committees, but nobody in the Department thought it was probably appropriate to make the committees aware of that issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: Why would they be very different today? How was the operation of the Department different two years ago from today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: Can anyone answer? Were the RTÉ statements, of the director general and the chairperson, who is the chair of an independent board, given to the Department before this meeting? I also note that in a couple of the statements there are font changes. It looks like they were edited, basically. Were they given to the Department - I will not say for sign-off - before coming here today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: Let us be straight up. I do not believe it is possible that nobody is sitting here who does not know. Were the statements given to the Department before the Secretary General came here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: So the statements were sent to the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: There is the answer for the RTÉ chair and director general.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: The fact is I noticed Mr. Ó Coigligh knew what the DG would say, so obviously-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: I have got to move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: My colleagues have only one question each.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: The Deputy has one minute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: Deputy, please desist. I call Deputy Gibney.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: I am sorry, Deputy, but we wanted a quick answer. I call Deputy Cleere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: I call Deputy Cleere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)
Alan Kelly: Colleagues.