Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Both the McCann Fitzgerald report and yesterday's committee hearing have brought more clarity to the questions of the approval of the exit package for Ms O'Keeffe. As I said, the report does show that proper approval procedures were agreed and were applied in most cases but there was one exception to this. It is important that yesterday the head of HR did appear before the committee for accountability. The other key players really need to come forward to the committees, and whether it is the case that they are unavailable or that it happens when they are in a better state of health, accountability from those people is needed. However, appointment of staff to the leadership team in RTÉ is a matter for the director general. I am not going to second-guess his judgment on this matter. What I will say with regard to the exit package that was revealed yesterday is that while there may not be a legal obligation on the former CFO, I concur that there is a moral obligation.

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