John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our guests, many of whom have been here before. Mr. Bakhurst has not. I welcome him to the committee and wish him well in his future endeavours. I would like this meeting to be about the future of RTÉ, about re-instilling public confidence in the national broadcaster and about the culture, governance and oversight. Unfortunately, to get there, we need to deal with these issues to start the process of re-instilling public confidence in RTÉ. The information we are given to help us in our important work on the expenditure of public funds is central to that. Unfortunately, that information continues to be drip-fed right up until today. That is disappointing and unfortunate.

On the correspondence that was furnished on Tuesday by Mr. Kelly and Mr. Tubridy, such as the new emails that emerged, why were those emails not furnished to the committee previously? There was critical information in the emails, such as those dated 19 December 2019 and 20 February 2020 about the guarantee or side letter that would be issued. The language is strong. Why were those emails not furnished to the committee?