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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Chair, have we received apologies from those who are not here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Do we have a letter from Ms Breda O'Keeffe?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: They are key witnesses because they put items on the record here that were plainly not true. The record needs to be corrected. It is significant.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are very welcome. I want to clarifying something again. Mr. Lynch said in his opening statement: “We believe that the substantive contract would not have been signed without the additional commercial agreement or the underwriting.” A sum of €75,000 of that was with Renault with convoluted methods and the other two were direct payments to RTÉ. Does...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Then, we can ourselves calculate what the reduction was.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Okay. I just want to get that on the record. The second thing relates to Mr. Lynch. Regarding the rules for RTÉ’s scheme for redundancy etc., he would have been on the executive board. The executive board reviewed all of those-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: -----exit packages. He would have been involved with Breda O’Keeffe’s exit package. My understanding of the word “redundancy” is that the job is redundant rather than the person being redundant. We know that Mr. Collins is in the position that Breda O’Keeffe had been in. We therefore know that the job was not made redundant. Was this an early retirement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I understand that quite a lot of staff were refused-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: -----that they had applied and they were refused because it was oversubscribed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I must say that I am not satisfied. We are talking about a job being made redundant here-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Very quickly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Right. Okay. I will stop Mr. Lynch there, because there are lots of things I want to ask about. Breda O’Keeffe sent in her apologies today. In her statement she said “I have nothing further to add to that statement with respect to the matters addressed therein”. That was her statement on 5 July. Since 5 July, Ryan Tubridy and Noel Kelly were before the committee....
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Was it what ended up being finally agreed to?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: It went to €440,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: That is the only thing that is different.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: It was a remarkably similar agreement. There is a €5,000 difference despite the fact that we were in an awful situation with the country in lockdown. I will leave that there because people can make up their own minds on it. Mr. Lynch talked about Ms Geraldine O'Leary being truthful. She could not remember who gave instructions or whose idea it was for all of this. We got a document...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: It has different directors who would have made a decision. Did it fund that from its fund or from RTÉ's central fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: It is not the RTÉ fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: There is still a surplus in that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Catherine Murphy: For how long has Deloitte been the auditor? Did it audit all of these accounts? We now know there are three entities to the barter accounts. Did Deloitte audit all of them and how long has it been the auditor?