RTÉ pay controversy: RTÉ will have to ‘work hard’ to win back staff trust, journalists’ union says after meeting Kevin Bakhurst
The Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris did not hold back when questioned about the RTÉ scandal on Morning Ireland which has not shied away at all from this issue.
Mr Harris went on to state that continuing dripfeed of information is “not tenable. We are getting pretty low on patience at this stage. “The ongoing revelations have severely damaged trust. The investigations and reviews by the minister will be part of that.” “We are concerned about the delivery of the public service commitments especially one of the commitments which is to put the audience at the heart of decision-making. We will be wanting to look at them in some detail to verify whether or not RTÉ has met those commitments to the extent to which they haven’t, how they feel and what might be done about it.
“With each new revelation of murky fiscal practices, there’s less focus on the undeclared payments tothat initially sparked the controversy. Tubridy is beginning to resemble the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the piece, the hapless spark to a much wider conflagration: as it stands, the only way he’s likely to be back behind a microphone any time soon is testifying in the Oireachtas next week.
“Marty Morrissey has gotten nothing from RTÉ, from the license holder other than his salary. So therefore, quite frankly, he has been pulled into this controversy, I think unfairly and unnecessarily.” It had been a car loan, no licence fee funds were involved, no RTÉ money was involved “He has been paid for the work that he has done. And yes, he had an arrangement, as he said in relation to the loan of a car. He has explained that and they are two entirely different situations.
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