Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Griffin for raising this important issue and for the very effective work he has been doing on the joint committee recently in relation to this matter. I am sure all of us are now receiving correspondence from former staff members of RTÉ or people who had interactions with RTÉ in the past. As is always the case with matters such as this, when people are making allegations, some will be true and can be proven, some will be true and cannot be proven, and some will not be true. That is why it is important that, first of all, we take any allegations seriously, but secondly, we do not jump to judgment. I think we will need to have a system or a process put in place to look at these allegations again, and fairly and in good faith. I am going to speak to the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Catherine Martin, about that. It can be done either through the Office of the Protected Disclosures Commissioner or perhaps a different mechanism. We have done it before with respect to other bodies. We will need to do it here too.

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