Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion
Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source
Thanks for that. Look, I do not have faith in the board. As I have said, the board accepted the resignation of Ms Forbes in the middle of this storm and hurricane that was blowing up. All the time, the board was advertising the hurricane and the storm as orange, but this was red. This must have been a red flag for the board. Surely to God the competency was in the board and the executive board when this resignation was tendered to not accept it, or to question it and discuss it and to get the answers. This would have allowed us to get the answers, and the public, the media, the taxpayers and the licence fee payers to get the answers. That was a major fundamental out-the-gap job, as far as I am concerned. It is a major cover-up: "Everything will be grand and she will take the hit and we will all be fine." That does not-----
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