Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

So, one presenter or their agent was not willing to take the pain. It has been described as a failure of corporate governance. It most certainly was that, but would any reasonable person looking on not say it was a bit more than that? I am trying to be fair but this really looks like orchestrated, organised deceit and concealment by somebody. When everybody else was taking cuts, the people who orchestrated the arrangement in question decided to call it consultancy in the books because, if I understand Mr. Lynch's point correctly, confidentiality was important. That is deliberate concealment.

It is a plot, for want of a better word, to conceal this from the public, the Oireachtas and the staff in RTÉ because the people who concocted this would have known there would have been murder. Also, if I understand it correctly, it could not even have got past legal. If legal had known this deal had been concocted, it would have said "No way". Is that a correct characterisation of what we are dealing with?