Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Thank you. Just a couple of final questions regarding to Ms Forbes. She claimed in her statement that she never knew about the €120,000 loyalty payments - and end-of-year payments - in the years 2017 to 2019. She had, of course, been director general since 2016. The board is stating that Ms Forbes is the only person who knew about the Renault deal, but she has stated that she does not know anything about it. You are also saying that she is the only person who knew - and this has come up a number of times today - about the payments relating to the period 2020 to 2022. When the whole situation is summed up and we look at what is taking place, do you not find that those two issues alone blow any credibility in terms of a lot of the stuff we heard here today? Would you not agree with that?

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