Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ
Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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What does Ms Cusack mean? The Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 was clearly violated and the chair has just said RTÉ did not deal with it properly, but it is not a matter of dealing with it properly. If the laws were broken, and I believe they were badly broken, it is not a matter of dealing with it properly. RTÉ was operating outside the law. I am concerned about the chair's last comment, namely, that RTÉ did not deal with it properly. We do not have the liberty not to deal with it properly. The law is the law.