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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: We will move on. We have received apologies from Deputy Ciarán Cannon. I omitted to say so at the beginning so I am noting it now. Senator Dooley, the floor is yours. You have ten minutes.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Finally, Senator Dooley, please.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Senator. I know that it has been a long evening for the Minister and her officials, which I very much appreciate. We are at the three-hour mark and it comes to me with my final few questions. I will not rehash what has been discussed earlier because everybody has done a stellar job in interrogating those points. I will make a few small points. We are at this point because...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Did she receive a package? She resigned and we know that there has been a precedent set with Mr. Coveney. We did not know he had received a package. We thought he had resigned. Then we discovered that he had received a package. I am asking the same question around the former DG. Has the Minister asked the question as to whether Dee Forbes, even though she resigned, received an exit package?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: The Minister has asked the question but Dee Forbes has not received a package.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: I, like the Minister and my colleagues, learn a great deal from the media and we have to read it there rather than perhaps our first choice which would be that we get this information at the committee. On exit packages again, we know Ms O’Keeffe, where this started off, got a package of €450,000. We read at the weekend that a former head of current affairs in RTÉ received...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Has the Minister made any inquiries into it?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Am I right in saying that package and agreement was agreed to during the reign of our new DG and the former chair of the board?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: We are talking specifically about Mr. Nally, and again I am not revealing anything that is not in the public domain. My understanding is that Mr. Nally was over current affairs and that a complaint had been made against him by staff. The Minister will know I have said it in here that I have heard from speaking with staff about real life accounts of intimidation and bullying. I am not...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Is the Minister aware of the cost to RTÉ to see through an investigation on that gentleman within RTÉ?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Would the Minister be shocked if I told her that there was a cost to RTÉ and that would be a six figure sum?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: I am actually talking about the investigation into complaints made against Mr. Nally where there was a cost to RTÉ in interrogating that complaint and that that cost could be somewhere a six figure sum. I ask the Minister whether she across that. Was she aware of that and has that information been brought to her? Would that be of concern to the Minister?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: What if I were to say to the Minister that the complaints made against this individual were upheld and there was a general problem there? What would her expectations be of somebody in that position where a complaint had been upheld against them? What would the Minister expect might happen to a very high ranking official in RTÉ around whom complaints were made, which were upheld? Would...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: What if I were to tell the Minister - again, this information is in the public domain - that a new job, a new position, was created for that individual against whom complaints were made and where those complaints were upheld? Rather than in the normal course of action, where disciplinary actions should have been taken, we find a situation a new position is created for that individual. This...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: I am going to ask the Minister about the-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: That is the answer to my question. The current DG, the former chair and the board have not informed the Minister or given her any information around this particular matter. That is of great public interest.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Sorry, you asked who what last week?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: About this case with Mr. Nally?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: You were given no information because of legal reasons.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Niamh Smyth: Is that acceptable, Minister?