Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I put it to you that you have failed to put the right questions to the RTÉ board through the chair, who is the only person you can talk to, as you say. You also failed to ask the right questions of the chair or, indeed, of the DG who comes along just as a mute person to accompany the chair or, as somebody said, to make the tea. I do not want to insult the man but he must know, if he is trying to clean up the mess in there. It is a mess; an unholy mess. The Minister might be aware of my comments at the very start of this last July. I believed the Committee of Public Accounts or ourselves were not equipped to investigate this and it should have been the fraud squad or even CAB because a sizable sum of money, in the region of €20 million, that has been put aside to deal with possible irregularities in bogus employment. No other company in the country has that opportunity afforded to them. Why is it afforded to RTÉ?