Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay. I do not need to add commentary on the fact that we would be a lot better if certain players were here, particularly Dee Forbes. I do not think anyone is particularly happy with how a situation arose where she is not here. I accept that she is under no compulsion, but she should do what is necessary and come before us here so we could at least have everything in the public domain. To use Mr. Lynch's own terms, it is particularly a systemic failure when, whether one person, two or a very small number of people can put something together and create this sort of financial vehicle, and then literally conceal it from everyone else.

Forget the rights and wrongs of it, in this day and age, it is the public broadcaster, and this is the bit that I do not understand. It is RTÉ. There is always an element of oversight. This was always going to happen some day. Outside of how annoyed people are, this is complete madness. We were always going to end up in this place. We all know the importance of RTÉ and public broadcasting in general, but there is a serious job that needs to be done by the witnesses and others to ensure that we maintain public broadcasting that people have an adequate amount of support for and confidence in. We are nowhere near there at the minute.