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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: What does Ms Eade mean when she says not formally?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: There may have been proof----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Ms Eade was not party to it at that point, but there may have been informal conversations between HRI and IHRB as to whether it would be possible to fund this additional payment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: The existence of additional payments in excess of the approved scheme would undermine the overall scheme-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: It could create a precedent. It could create additional funding demands. Other employees coming down the track later could cite it as a precedent, which could lead to a situation where it would have to be funded if it continued as custom and practice for a long period.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Mr. O'Loughlin has informed us that a number of parties were informed that the CFO would not be present today. Was Ms Eade informed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: That puts everybody in the room in a difficult situation. Does Ms Eade have any comment on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: To some degree, we are at a disadvantage because we do not know how awful it is and we do not know what is coming down the track. Does this pose a significant challenge for Ms Eade in terms of being able to secure votable public funds in order to fund the IHRB into the future?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Is there a possibility that this could include a criminal investigation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Is there a possibility that public funds might have been misappropriated?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: What form did extending that opportunity take?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I have the benefit of having sat through two nearly full sessions now. There has been a lot of discussion about the barter account and about invoices and so on. I want to come back to the issue of the tripartite agreement. In what was an excellent piece of public service broadcasting on "Prime Time", Mark Coughlan gave a great summation of what has happened here. He described the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Was Mr. Collins aware of a tripartite agreement and was he aware of it being cost-neutral?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: To my question about knowing about the agreement being cost-neutral the witness has said he did not know. I will ask Mr. Coveney the same question. Was he aware of it being cost-neutral?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: The witness has no knowledge of a tripartite agreement. Was Ms Doherty aware of a tripartite agreement and it's cost-neutral nature?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Was Ms Mullooly aware of the cost-neutral nature of a tripartite agreement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Since March 2021 Ms Mullooly has been aware of the tripartite agreement and the terms of it. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Okay. I will not ask the other witnesses the same questions. I am assuming that either by the evidence they have given already, or their distance or time served in the organisation that they would not be aware. Am I correct in saying that nobody else was aware of a tripartite agreement or its cost-neutral nature? Let me come back then to the second part of what Mark Coughlan described...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I want to be clear on this. The €75,000 would not be paid to RTÉ, and it would be paid to Mr. Tubridy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: As the commercial director, is the witness usually in the business of voluntarily giving away €75,000 of revenue?