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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)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Ms O'Leary. I have two final questions. On Toy Show the Musical, I get that risk is part and parcel of any arts programming. Certainly, the show did not work out as intended. I believe the revenue was 15% of what RTÉ had forecast in quarter 2 last year. Mr. Coveney referred to the project as being multi-annual. What were his expectations for years two and three of the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: What did Mr. Coveney forecast for years two and three? From the text, RTÉ is kind of acknowledging that it could have made a loss, even though it was not forecasting one, but it was obviously expecting to make a gain in year two or year three.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. Coveney. I have a final question for Mr. Shortt. The external review was announced yesterday. It will be approximately eight months by the time we see something concrete from that process. What does he believe needs to happen in the interim within RTÉ? First, within the board, because he is on the board, what changes need to happen to try to reinstill confidence of both...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. Shortt.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Is the allowance of €42,000 for a car?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Apologies if this has been asked. Have Ryan Tubridy or Noel Kelly ever asked for the public record of Ryan Tubridy's earnings to be corrected?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Has Ryan Tubridy or Noel Kelly asked for the public record to be corrected at any time in terms of his published salary?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: Can that be checked?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I want to follow on from what Senator Ó Donnghaile said about what took place in Jenin overnight. Activities have now been escalated to a new level given the loss of life and the campaign by Israel to effectively uproot whole communities. We need to hear a clear message from the Irish Government. I very much support calls for statements next week. A second thing has to be said today....

Seanad: Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Bill 2023: Second Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber. The Labour Party very much supports the Bill and its intent. We have been awaiting it for quite some time. Its importance is evident when one considers how badly served groups of consumers in this country were for several decades, particularly in the context of insurance and banking. The issue of qualified entities came up in...

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

Marie Sherlock: The first thing is to thank all the witnesses who attended this hearing today. The crucial point of the hearing is that we understand more about the shambles that appears to be corporate governance within RTÉ, and that coming out of this, we would have a stronger RTÉ, a more transparent RTÉ and an RTÉ that has fairer working conditions. During the week we had...

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

Marie Sherlock: I have three sets of specific questions for Ms O 'Leary, for Mr. Collins and for Ms Ní Raghallaigh, but first I want to ask Mr. Shortt - as the staff member on the board - what he believes now needs to happen within RTÉ to move forward from this awful crisis that has engulfed the national broadcaster. What needs to happen to the executive? I am conscious that I have another set of...

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

Marie Sherlock: What needs to happen to the executive and within RTÉ to try to re-instil confidence in the public broadcaster and to reassure staff now that these issues are going to be comprehensively dealt with?

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

Marie Sherlock: I thank Mr. Shortt. As the commercial director, I must ask Ms O'Leary is it good enough that she cannot recall the detail of the invoices and that there was no paper trail within her office? This is particularly pertinent when we have learned from the Grant Thornton report that those invoices accounted for 70% of the value of the purchases going through the barter account in 2022. What...

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

Marie Sherlock: Is it exceptional then that Ms O'Leary would not even communicate with the chief financial officer if it is unusual for her role to be raising invoices at all?

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

Marie Sherlock: I think what we are hearing is a story of Chinese walls and that divisions are working in silos and not communicating with each other. It reflects an utter dysfunction as an executive if an unusual transaction has never been brought to the attention of the executive. If I picked him up correctly, the chief financial officer said a few minutes ago that the first he understood of these...

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

Marie Sherlock: Mr. Collins had no knowledge and no inkling whatsoever.

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

Marie Sherlock: There is an ambiguity to Mr. Collins's answer. We see from the Grant Thornton report that the barter account was previously outside of the financial statements but was brought into the balance sheet two years ago, if I understand correctly. How could it be the case that if the barter account was on the balance sheet for the past two years, he had no knowledge of these events last year, and...

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

Marie Sherlock: When did Mr. Collins know?

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

Marie Sherlock: Mr. Collins is saying that his department had no knowledge at all of this last year.