Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for coming before us today. What we have seen over the past week is the worst and best of RTÉ. We have seen the worst in terms of the revelations and, quite frankly, the way they have been handled. We have seen the best of RTÉ in the way in which its journalists have held it to account in the way they do us. That is an important point to get on the record. The people I have spoken to in RTÉ are absolutely disgusted, and I do not want to layer that on. They are disappointed, furious and angry. The people I have spoken to today are angry with the statement from Mr. Lynch yesterday. The Taoiseach made it very clear in the Dáil that the Government does not believe him.

I think his exact words were: "We do not believe it is credible that the former director general, Dee Forbes, was the only person with knowledge of the events." That is in direct response to Mr. Lynch's statement.