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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: Regarding bogus self-employment, how much has been set aside by RTÉ to settle that issue?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: Will the Minister furnish the details to the committee? We understand it will run to multiples of millions at this stage. This leads me on to my next question. Has the Minister referred matters pertaining to RTÉ to the Revenue Commissioners arising from this most recent scandal?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: Is the Minister aware of any inquiries being made by the Revenue Commissioners into RTÉ outside of the bogus self-employment matter?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: It has not communicated whether or not that is happening. Has the Minister asked if that is happening?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: It is important.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: With all due respect, I am not the Minister. I do not have those direct lines.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: No, I am asking if Revenue is looking into matters in RTÉ other than bogus self-employment, arising from this. Has the Minister discussed it with the chair or has it come to the Minister's attention?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: Has the Minister asked the chair that question?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: Will the Minister establish that for the committee? It would be interesting for us to know if that is the case. It is in the public interest.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: The Minister said she was not happy about the reinstatement of the executives’ pay previously and that it was done without her knowledge. Would she look to have that decision reversed by the board? Maybe this is something she has already asked for this?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: On the Department itself, I asked earlier about interactions with the chair and so on. Was anyone in the Department scrutinising RTÉ annual reports? I presume there is a wing of the Department that has special responsibility for RTÉ under an assistant secretary or a principal officer? I would imagine there is. What is the set up there?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: And they have been doing that over the past number of years, obviously.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: Did anyone see anything wrong with governance or lack thereof in relation to, for example, the audit and risk committee or the remuneration committee not meeting?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: Would anyone in the Department have flagged concerns the Minister should raise with the chair when she was meeting her prior to March 2023? In the meetings they would have been having in the two years and nine months prior to that, would anyone have flagged concerns the Minster should have flagged with the chair?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: No. The board did not know what was going on and the wing of the Department specifically dedicated to RTÉ did not know what was going on and was not concerned about anything.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: Would functions of the board have ever been discussed in those meetings, including what the board was doing, whether it was doing its job? Would there have been checks on whether the board was doing everything it was supposed to be doing if the subcommittees of the board were meeting?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: So those questions would have been asked. What would the replies have been? If those questions were asked, and we clearly know now that these things were not happening, did the board mislead the Minister when she had met them?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: This is the very last question. Is the lack of financial auditing expertise, that is, people who speak the language of auditors, on the board of concern to the Minister? Is it something she intends to change? We have seen how when there is not that expertise how it permeates to subcommittees. There is not the appropriate level of scrutiny in those subcommittees. Is this something the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: She does now.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Griffin: But overall it is not a massive amount.