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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) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Why did the committee only meet once per annum in the crucial period from 2018 to 2023?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: I will tell you now. It met once in 2018, once in 2019, it did not meet at all in 2020 - that is fair enough - it met once in 2021 and did not meet at all in 2022. I understand it has met once so far in 2023. For the relevant period, particularly in 2018 and 2019, why did it go from three meetings in 2017 down to one? At the same time, the audit and risk committee and the programmes...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: In that time, Ms Doherty was able to attend six out of eight full board meetings in 2018, five out of eight in 2019, six out of eight in 2020 and eight out of nine in 2021. The remuneration committee just seems to be way down the pecking order in terms of priority. This is at a time when there were payments going out through the barter account. Who else was on the committee?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Was the DG on that board?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Will Ms Doherty furnish the committee with all the minutes of those meetings please?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: It is important that we would have that. Writing in the Sunday Independent last week, the journalist Shane Ross raised a number of issues regarding the importance of that committee and why it was not meeting at that crucial time and those questions need to be answered. In regard to Toy Show The Musical, €2.2 million was lost. By my rough calculations that equals the television...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: It was unique alright.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: How were the losses paid for?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Was that out of the central fund?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Did anybody along the way advise that this was not a good idea?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Did anyone advise that it was not a good idea within RTÉ?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Did anyone say, "Stop, this is not a good idea"?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: In regard to advertising, I was looking through the accounts earlier and my head was wrecked. The advertisement for Toy Show The Musical was broadcast during every commercial break last autumn. It took up a great deal of airtime. Were the advertisements free from RTÉ for advertising this? Where earnings foregone by the station because of the displacement factor, with this being...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Was no commercial airtime was taken up by the advertisements for this show?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: When I looked into the funding models, I was looking at one particular programme, The Movie Show,of which I believe Mr. Lynch was the producer back in 2012. Would that be classed as advertiser funded programming, AFP?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: It was money from Ford.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Did Mr. Lynch bring the money from Ford to RTÉ first or did he pitch the programme first and then find Ford?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Is Mr. Lynch sure that is the order of events?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Will he find out and come back to me?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Would he stand over the commissioning of that show today and the way it was done?