Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Everyone remembers what was happening in Covid. We remember that people from RTÉ came before this committee and the Government gave significant wage supports to RTÉ. The difficulty we have is that we were misled at the time around some of the financial arrangements. The wage subsidies were about trying to protect employment. People were taking salary cuts and yet, arguably - I am not saying Mr. Collins did - some senior people within RTÉ clearly knew at the time that this was not happening.