Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If you have someone who is a senior, significant journalist broadcaster within RTÉ, and on a Saturday night he is doing a gig for a bank and on Monday morning he is chairing a conversation about banking policy, it is absolutely crucial that the members of the public know that that individual has a commercial relationship with a bank external to RTÉ and his judgment on these matters might be somewhat flawed, shall we say, or influenced by that relationship. It is absolutely of importance to have that transparency. If it can be done at the BBC, I cannot understand why it could not be done at RTÉ.