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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: Revenue determined the four factors that deemed those couriers to be self-employed and that has transpired to be against Irish law. I hear what the Comptroller and Auditor General is saying. When an organisation voluntarily engages with Revenue to make a settlement with regard to bogus self-employment, would Revenue accept a report commissioned by a third party as the basis for that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: Therefore, Revenue would accept a report commissioned by a third party. Would it then conduct its own investigation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: Would Revenue accept a report furnished by a third party, whether it be a consultant agency or any of the-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: That is perfect. That is what I wanted to know. That investigation would result in the creation of a lot of documents, I imagine. Would a final report of sorts be produced and made available to the person or persons disclosing a practice of miscalculation upon their request?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Cody is presuming, but I am just asking-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: Would that be made available to the person or persons who made the disclosure?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: If they wanted the Revenue Commissioners' final analysis or whatever, would it be made available on request?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: If somebody earning between €40,000 and €50,000 was misclassified as self-employed rather than as an employee, how much might the settlement with the Revenue Commissioners be? Would it beget a similar settlement concerning, say, the Department of Social Protection? Could Mr. Cody indicate how much it would be for the same individual, just to get an idea?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: I flagged the item, too.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: It is so frustrating. There are reports of the spiralling costs of the national children's hospital. Judging by this piece of correspondence, the Department is blatantly refusing to engage with the committee, citing commercial sensitivities and asserting that its focus is on completing the project. Optimistically, this hospital will not open until at least 2024. Come that time, I fully...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: You could use the word "disappointed" but you could also say that we are at a total loss as to how, two and a half years on, they have not finalised the report.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: I wish to raise the same issue about pop-up test centres. Last night, I asked the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, if he would make a commitment to contact the HSE in Louth in relation to it providing a pop-up test centre for Drogheda and he said he would respond in his closing statement, but he did not. As the Tánaiste will probably know, Louth has the highest case numbers in the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: I thank the Vice Chair. I want to touch on RTÉ. Ms Licken said the funding for RTÉ comes through her Department, but we know that RTÉ is funded through the television licence. RTÉ accounts for nearly 25% of the total expenditure. The funding comes through the Department and it is tasked with handing the funding over. I want to touch on the fact that RTÉ recently...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: I am asking about the settlement it made and the Department's take on it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Would the Department be concerned about the lack of oversight? The settlement was made as a consequence of a lack of oversight. We have been here before. I would give the FAI as an example of an organisation that lacked oversight. Would Ms Murphy be concerned at all about that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: There is another issue there. I recently engaged with RTÉ regarding pay disparity that has been ongoing between clár reachtairí and their English-language counterparts. It seems that workers are essentially being paid less if they work through the medium of Irish. I understand that has been going on for approximately 20 years. RTÉ at the time claimed to be unaware of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: That again comes back to the issue of oversight. This has been going on for 20 years. It was only when it was flagged and people persistently chased it that RTÉ did what it is doing. We have, as yet, nothing concrete from RTÉ. There has been a lack of oversight and, for 20 years, there has been a sliding scale of wages.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Does Ms Murphy want to come in?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: This practice went on for 20 years. Was the Department aware of the pay disparity between workers depending on the language through which they worked?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020 (25 Nov 2021)

Imelda Munster: Is the review that is being carried out to review the grades of all staff? Does it apply specifically to the pay disparity?