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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) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: The Deputy has gone over time but I will allow one last and final question.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Mr. Bakhurst. We move on now to Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: Yes.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Deputy O'Sullivan and all my colleagues. I will contribute next and two Members, who are not members of the committee, will contribute for a couple of minutes at the end. I appreciate we have been meeting now for more than three hours. If the witnesses can bear with us, hopefully we will-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: -----bring this to a conclusion today. We have received apologies from a large number of people but Mr. Bakhurst and his colleagues have been very agreeable and forthcoming with information. I appeal to Ms Forbes, if she is watching, to please make herself available to this committee at some point. We do not want to go down the road of compelling but we may be left with no option. There is...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: Does he agree with the notion that the board was deceived?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: Would it be fair to say the board was deceived by the chair and director general. It was their job to give the board that information. I do not know where else its members would go to ask for that information. Would it be fair to say they deceived you?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: Thank you. What are Ms O'Leary's thoughts?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: Okay. I am not sure if Ms Ahern was there for any of this but what are her thoughts on it today?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: It was deceit in the worst way possible.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: Mr. Harvey.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: That is correct. There was an inner circle and the board was not given the information to do its job.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: I am very mindful that the board members who sat on the board waived their fees because the financial crisis in RTÉ was so dire.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: I thank Mr. Harvey and call Mr. Hickey.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: Were you deceived?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: So you are being enabled to do the job you have been asked to do.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: I call Ms Howard.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: Lucky you.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Niamh Smyth: Mr. Ruane is online. I appreciate his sitting through three hours without getting to say one thing, so the floor is his.