Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We are a week on and we still do not have full transparency, and even after the board releases its statement, we will not have it. How do I know that? The board is saying that it is not going to put any information into the public domain in relation to the €120,000 of additional payments that Ryan Tubridy received from 2017 to 2019. We should not need a Grant Thornton review. That can be independent but we should be able to hear from senior executives at RTÉ how this came about, who sanctioned it, who approved of it, why it was kept secret and why the public and the Oireachtas were misled.

The Taoiseach, through the Minister, has the power under section 109 of Broadcasting Act to appoint a person into RTÉ to review those records and bring that information to light. It is not acceptable that two committees of this House, one sitting tomorrow and the other sitting on Thursday, may not have information in relation to any of the transactions from 2017 to 2019. The Taoiseach has called for full transparency but is he calling for it today? Should the executives of RTÉ be releasing into the public domain their knowledge of what transpired in relation to the payments from 2017 to 2019, which they said yesterday they are refusing to do so at this time?

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