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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: What happened following this conversation?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: What was his principal concern?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: What were Ms O'Leary's concerns with Mr. Howard investigating these irregular invoices?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: Did Ms O'Leary raise this with any other executive board members or management?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: Were minutes taken at that meeting?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: In terms of the action items that resulted from that meeting, what were the next steps that proceeded?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: Was Mr. Tubridy informed at this time?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: Was the management team informed?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: Could I ask Ms Ní Raghallaigh why the routine audit report by Deloitte, which first raised the irregular payments, has not been provided to the committee?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: Has the routine audit that Deloitte performed on where the issues arose been published or will it be published?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: When will the accounts be published?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: In relation to the Grant Thornton investigation of the 2017 to 2019 internal review, why has the internal review identifying the €120,000 worth of undeclared payments not been provided to the committee? Is there a reason that has not yet been published or furnished?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: Yes, Ms Ní Raghallaigh said it will take four weeks.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: I refer to Deloitte's work. Deloitte performs routine audits. Is it Grant Thornton that is doing the review? Who is doing the review?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: I will ask the CFO about the off-balance sheet operations from the barter account. Is this related to why Deloitte raised the issues back in March, and its subsequent operations?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: That was as a result of Mr. Collins's decision to put it on the balance sheet.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: Retrospectively, has Mr. Collins gone back to see if there have been any other unclassified invoice payments through barter accounts that have raised concerns with him as CFO?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: To date, Mr. Collins has not done that.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: Ms Geraldine O'Leary, Mr. Collins's colleague seated beside him, is the commercial director. She has the responsibility for operating the barter account. Has Mr. Collins discussed with Ms O'Leary the transactions that have been made in recent years in terms of the concealment of invoices?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: Can Ms O'Leary provide clarification? We know of the €150,000 payment made to NK Management. Have there been any other payments that Ms O'Leary is aware of in relation to further transactions that have been off-balance sheet?