Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

When it made that decision is the question. All of this is in public now and all of a sudden it decides to recommence it but it has got its money in the meantime. I am not convinced everything was done appropriately. There were some games played by RTÉ and it ultimately got its money. With public money, Cabinet needs to be far more serious about giving money to organisations that I feel has been less than honest with the public in the way it has conducted itself. This was done under the current board and since June so there is no hiding from this for the board. It made a conscious decision to stop advertising the licence fee outside RTÉ's own platforms, something that was always done. That looks very suspicious and deserves to be investigated further.