Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will put it a different way. In terms of the ten-year season tickets, the Rugby World Cup, U2, golfing and all the other activities, it looks like this harks back to FÁS. FÁS got caught and it was reformed. RTÉ has been caught, I suppose, but there are the same insinuations that there was a kind of slush fund, to use the words. I grew up with RTÉ and programmes like "The Den" and "Planet Zog" - you must be living on it if you are asking us to believe that no one else knew. Were any directors of the board at any of these events? Nobody? The thing is that people must have known that such and such was going off to U2, the K Club and the dinners, along with their partners and possibly their families. Nobody asked any questions, with the exception of Mr. Shortt, who was elected to his position, and the staff of the organisation, who must really wonder what was going on because they might get a free RTÉ Guidethe odd time - wow. It was not being run for the benefit of the staff or the taxpayers.