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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: It is closed off now anyway.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: It is important that we acknowledge the work done by RTÉ both on this issue and on that of gender pay. I think that is the second report. We had robust exchanges with the Accounting Officer and the director of human resources when they were before the committee but they seem to have taken the issue seriously. We have reports and recommendations which they say they accept and hopefully...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: It is up to that committee if it deals with it, it is not appropriate for us.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: We will come back to that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: There are 109, certainly more than 100 contracts that will have to be reviewed. That could be a cost to RTÉ and, as a consequence, to the Exchequer. We will not know until that work has been done but it is something that we would return to.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: The Chairman will launch this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: The Comptroller and Auditor General will not be able to watch it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: I definitely think we should come back to this after the recess. May I see the previous document on the screen again? We should write to Trinity College and request a breakdown of the €974,781 figure. The letter refers to the cost of investigation, which I assume is an internal investigation.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: It also mentions ancillary costs, whatever they are. It would be useful to get a breakdown of what all that means.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: We need to know the costs of the outside firm, the ancillary costs and the amount that was stolen.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: Do we have a serial leaker?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: There is probably nothing we can do about it, and I raised it earlier in a different context, but if we are receiving correspondence that-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: There may have been a link.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: My point is that we need to be extra precious when it comes to correspondence that makes allegations against individuals that could be defamatory. If it ends up in the newspapers even before we get a chance to discuss it, it is not then accepted as Committee of Public Accounts correspondence. We had the dossier from Ms Skelly. Some of that ended up in the media. We need to be extra...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: It undermines us if we have to deal with it at some point. If, say, there are issues we cannot deal with it but others that we can deal with, members of the committee could compromise our work. I will leave it at that but it is happening now almost on a weekly basis.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: Or read the Sunday newspaper.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: Not too many, I hope.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: I welcome Mr. O'Kelly and his team. I ask him to give us an overview of the strategic investment fund, its purpose and what it does or should do. That is under the NTMA's remit, is it not?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: What is the mix or blend of finance? There is some private capital; from where does the rest of the money come?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

David Cullinane: What is the NPRF?