RTÉ crisis: Broadcaster due before PAC on Ryan Tubridy pay as chairwoman concedes ‘shocking’ governance failings
My colleague Shauna Bowers has more political reaction to RTÉ's committee appearance yesterday . . .
“I think yesterday we saw a number of issues that are concerning. It’s clear there is an issue around timeline.”“To help all of that be protected, we need the management to step up and to not allow today end without providing the clarity that is needed,” he added.Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee , said the role of agent Noel Kelly in the negotiations for the Ryan Tubridy pay deal with RTÉ needed to be explained.
Governance at RTÉ seemed to be “bizarre” particularly in relation to responsibility, accountability, financial systems and practices with “absolutely bizarre and costly methods” of doing transactions and making payments, he said. “Where exactly would he have walked to? Who was going to pay him more than that on the island of Ireland? So you could say he might have went to England? That perhaps is the case. But are there stations in England that scarce of people that they would poach from Ireland? I think it’s ridiculous the whole scenario that is being presented,” Mr Stanley said.
“One of the things that came from Grant Thornton is the power of Noel Kelly. Why in the name of God did anybody feel that he would walk as he was getting €495,000 without a top-up of €75,000?
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