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- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Legal privilege.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: And that is why we are here today.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
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- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: The CFO who was in place previously, who flatly rejected the commercial arrangement that was going to be entered into, subsequently leaves RTÉ and all of a sudden her successor is not aware of it and a unilateral decision is made.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: So, the statement issued by the former DG outlining that all executives were informed of the dealings in relation to the contractual arrangement was incorrect?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: We appreciate you coming here.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: We received a communication today from Ryan Tubridy and Noel Kelly. I hope they will come to committee in public session and furnish us with the information in relation to that conversation. I will move on.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: We understand that Mr. Lynch, but the concealment of further payments for year 2 and year 3 are the real concern here in terms of the manner in which they were actually processed.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: I thank Mr. Lynch. I appreciate that. On the commercial department's remit, will Ms O' Leary tell the committee if any of the corporate hospitality guests are from the public sector or any semi-State agencies?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Will Ms O'Leary furnish the committee with a list of those and what events they actually attended?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Public sector and semi-State agencies.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: I am conscious of time but I have a question for Ms Ní Raghallaigh, the chair of RTÉ. From the figures that were released last night it appears that ten people from the executive board oversaw all of this. These people take home in the region of €2.3 million collectively. Do Ms Ní Raghallaigh's board colleagues justify their annual salary at that level of around...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Has Ms Ní Raghallaigh asked her colleagues within RTÉ that they will not seek resignation because of the importance of the work that we have to do over the coming weeks on the internal and external reports, in order to fix the situation we are currently in?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: My final question to Mr. Coveney is about the impact of the financial losses of more than €2.2 million on Toy Show The Musical. What impact will this have on RTÉ's operations and programming for the upcoming fiscal year?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Mr. Coveney predicted €3.2 million in revenue yet ended up with a total revenue of €496,000. How did Mr. Coveney get the forecasting so wrong?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Were barter accounts in existence prior to Ms O'Keeffe joining RTÉ as chief financial officer, CFO?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Maybe I will rephrase it. Did Ms O'Keeffe implement barter accounts or were they previously in existence before she joined as CFO?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: We understand that, and that it is 1% of the overall trading income. Ms O'Keeffe was in control of the financial elements of it. The commercial department is over the operational element. It was off balance sheet during Ms O'Keeffe's time. Is that correct?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: We now know it was off balance sheet in terms of the return on the basis of what we have heard from the current CFO. Why was it off balance sheet? What checks and balances were done internally? Was it scrutinised by the routine auditors during Ms O'Keeffe's time as CFO?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Is Ms O'Keeffe-----