Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Tánaiste says he wants full accountability but I ask him where it is. We were led to believe that, in the last year, people who were involved in the financial scandals were forced to resign. However, yesterday we find out that they were actually given secret golden handshake payments and that the current management of RTÉ introduced confidentiality clauses. Where is the accountability? The Tánaiste says he wants full transparency regarding the packages. What does he say about Rory Coveney's package and the other packages where confidentiality clauses were entered into? That just happened eight months ago. I invited the Tánaiste to do this. Does he support our call on RTÉ that all packages, redundancy payments and golden handshakes be made transparent to the public who are funding them in the first place?

What, if anything, is the Government going to do in respect of accountability? I make the point genuinely. There are 300,000-plus families who have stopped paying for their TV licences.

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